Dasquian Belargic
Feb 1st, 2009, 04:41:06 PM
Yes, it's February so it's time to read another book! As suggested by Droo...
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The reason I am suggesting it is because it was a Christmas gift from my auntie and having read the first few chapters already, I can safely recommend it in the knowledge that it is something very special. The narrative is dynamic, kinetic, hilarious and extremely touching. This isn't a very new novel, it is available in paperback, but if no-one else has read it before then we could always give this a try either as an alternative or as an option for a future instalment in the book club. Below are non-spoiler details about the novel and its plot.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by New York writer Jonathan Safran Foer. It was one of the first novels to deal with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book is an example of an emerging school of contempory postmodernism which challenges the technical limitations of the novel to create a more immersive work. Foer, like his friend and sometime collaborator Dave Eggers, is often called a product of the information age. He brings a multimedia sensibility to the book. He uses type settings, spaces and even blank pages to give the book a visual dimension beyond the prose narrative.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
Let's see if we can all get finished on time this month? ^_^; How about we try to be done reading by Feb 22nd?
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww277/droogydroo/loudclose.jpg
The reason I am suggesting it is because it was a Christmas gift from my auntie and having read the first few chapters already, I can safely recommend it in the knowledge that it is something very special. The narrative is dynamic, kinetic, hilarious and extremely touching. This isn't a very new novel, it is available in paperback, but if no-one else has read it before then we could always give this a try either as an alternative or as an option for a future instalment in the book club. Below are non-spoiler details about the novel and its plot.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by New York writer Jonathan Safran Foer. It was one of the first novels to deal with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book is an example of an emerging school of contempory postmodernism which challenges the technical limitations of the novel to create a more immersive work. Foer, like his friend and sometime collaborator Dave Eggers, is often called a product of the information age. He brings a multimedia sensibility to the book. He uses type settings, spaces and even blank pages to give the book a visual dimension beyond the prose narrative.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
Let's see if we can all get finished on time this month? ^_^; How about we try to be done reading by Feb 22nd?