Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran Foer (Penguin Essentials, 77)

I find this book very difficult to define; at times laugh out loud funny, at others one of the most serious stories I've ever read. At times a riveting page-turner and at others a book where you can only read a few pages in a day because there is so much depth and meaning to what you are reading. This book is gripping and insightful in ways I never imagined possible. Deeper than almost anything I've ever read and impacting in a way I simply cannot describe. This is a book that will stay with me for a very long time.

I just loved this book and cried so hard when I finished it. Jonathan Safran Foer is an incredible story teller

Over the last three years I‘ve tried to read this book three times never getting past page 300. I don‘t know what it is but I just couldn‘t get into the story. I couldn‘t connect to the characters, the story didn’t spark any interest and the writing didn‘t stand out to me either. It‘s not a bad book but it definetly wasn‘t my book.