Comments on: Books Read, October 2005

By: tangognat

tangognat — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:08:50 +0000

HWOSG was a very disposable book. I can’t see myself wanting to read that again, but I might pick up Everything is Illuminated again in a few years.

By: SnitFit

SnitFit — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:57:41 +0000

Everything is Illuminated is actually quite good. And I’m easily put off by 20-somethings who, bc they went to Princeton, think they’re brilliant. Unfortunately, I had to revise my snippishness and groove on the narrative. I think he’s sounding a bit repetetive w/ “Extremely loud and very close” or what ever the title of the sophomore effort is. Foer is much better than Gary Shteyngart, who wrote _The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” and/or Dave Eggers, the author of the oh-so-promising-but-god-how-it-sucks _A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_, in which the intro is a clever piece of lit theory that the book cannot even dream of living up to.
My 2 cents.
Jennifer

By: tangognat

tangognat — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:04:15 +0000

I haven’t read his second novel, but the subject that it covered didn’t really seem to grab me. I might give it a try sometime though.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:59:09 +0000

I thought I was the only one who liked “Everything is Illuminated.” I’m glad you enjoyed it! I didn’t like his 2nd novel though…