For my local book club we read Jonathon Safron Foer's
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. At the next meeting we then watched the movie. Obviously, from my entry's title I was not at all impressed by the book or the movie. It took me almost three months to finally finish the book and it was all I could to stay awake during the movie. I finally had to pull my phone out and check out my E-mail just to keep my eyes open! I am not at all sure what the raving about the book or the movie was about. I suppose a boy's multi-year journey throughout New York City to reconnect with the memory of his father, lost in 9/11 could have been a touching story if it had any type of plot to follow. Other than his search there was zero plot, barely any dialogue and a whole lot of misfitting anecdotes and disconnected thoughts. Any Psyche major would love to read this book but that's the best critique I can give. Sorry, Mr. Foer.
