Everything Is Illuminated

A Novel

De: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrado por: Robert Petkoff

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Interesting at times but feels confusing

Really hard to follow at times. Maybe I wasn’t fully focused and just rushing to get one more book read.

Great story

I loved it. Very funny. I loved the dog and the driving around Ukraine. Alex was wonderful.

The writing of the scene when Alex’s grandfather names his best friend

The broken English of Alex is unrealistic. Fun and funny, but not one wrong verb tense?

movie and book

It's odd that this book is more interesting because I watched the movie first. May be my opinion alone. But I love that the movie became the outcome of their letters. It's Alex's story, the movie has the image of him as who he wants to be seen as. His family is the better versions he begs Jonathan to write of. It made the book beautiful to me. Heartbreaking too. Some rant parts were a little much, but genius piecing together.

Um, what?

I went into this knowing that I know a lot of people who love JSF. And there was a lot to love here…. Until the last few chapters.

This novel reads like an origami project that you carefully fold and unfold and retold from different angles to get to your final project… but in the last five folds decide it’s too complicated and just make a cliche airplane and chuck it across the room.

The story is slow to present itself, then intricate and interesting, and then a very rushed cliche pile of shit.