Comments on: Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By: The Sunday Salon: Balancing My Reading Diet

The Sunday Salon: Balancing My Reading Diet — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:40:49 +0000

[...] that has happened! The Book Thief, The Blind Assassin, The Weird Sisters, Nothing to Envy, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Warmth of Other Suns… all books that have whispered to me after I finished. I want to [...]

By: Care

Care — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:53:22 +0000

Great review. I agree with everything you say. I’m linking to this. I didn’t cry as much as I expected – maybe because I expected to. But it was still emotion for me.

By: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close « Care's Online Book Club

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close « Care's Online Book Club — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:22:30 +0000

[...] REVIEWS: Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness, Nymeth at Things Mean a Lot, Raych at books I done read, Fyrefly’s Book Blog [...]

By: Krysta

Krysta — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:48:30 +0000

Please, please read this book. It’s fantastic, and the review here on it is great and spot on. it’s the best book i’ve ever read! so full of emotion.

By: Link Love 08.28.2009

Link Love 08.28.2009 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:28:57 +0000

[...] Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close @Sophisticated Dorkiness (once I saw someone reading this and the pages of the book looked so awesome I had to ask them what it was and read it based only on the use of typography, ended up being one of my favorite novels ever) [...]

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:46:23 +0000

It was really well done. I don’t know that I did the book justice in the review, but I felt like it avoided most of the stereotypes that happen in 9/11 and “bad things happening to kids” books, which I appreciated. But, because I’m sort of predisposed to be affected by those things, it might have made my reaction to the book stronger.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:44:44 +0000

That’s great. That’s another book I would love to read, and would definitely pick up if I came across it.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:44:17 +0000

Excellent!

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:44:01 +0000

Hmmm, that’s a really good point. I hadn’t thought about it like that. I guess I never felt cheated by it — I felt like the fact that the event that impacted Oskar was 9/11 wasn’t the focus of the book, that just sort of happened to be it. I wonder though, now, if the story could have picked a different event or even made up an event and it would have still been as powerful? I want to say yes, but I’m not sure. It might be different today where there’s a little more distance from the event as well.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:42:05 +0000

Awesome, I can’t wait to hear the review. I’d love ot read that one sometime soon too.