#posted 10.17.12

[gotiffany-blog]

It’s already time for the mid-term, which means we're halfway through all the books we were assigned to read. I found an interesting review on Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by a rather cynical book reviewer on the link provided above. While a little crass in its exposition I think it really does hit on some of the negative points some of us have in regards to the book overall. I do agree with the reviewer on this issue, “We never knew what the clues were who the people were, what the point of the stories was or even what the anticlimactic key meant. We only know that it was meant to mean something.” While I know the whole point of the story was obliviously not about the key or anything else mentioned above, it would have added something to be desired. In addition, I don’t feel that the mother had a fair shot at character development, but we were stuck in 1st person POV and Oskar didn’t have a strong bond with his mother at the beginning. These were all things I wish were expanded upon in the novel, even if that’s just me being a selfish reader.