http://www.rationalcontemporary.com/archives/73 Personal webpage of Joshuah Stolaroff Sun, 17 May 2009 01:05:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.rationalcontemporary.com/archives/73/comment-page-1#comment-127 Cortney Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:09:17 +0000 http://www.rationalcontemporary.com/?p=73#comment-127 I'm so glad to hear you are reading Foer as well ... and I'm sure you have many books to read, but you might also check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393328627/sr=8-1/qid=1150488177/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9212683-3714518?%5Fencoding=UTF8" rel="nofollow">The History of Love</a> by Foer's novelist wife, Nicole Krauss. Ignore the title and jump into a really well crafted book that is just as engaging and equally (more?) well written. I read it before I read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and it colored the latter book for me a bit. Rather than being about Sept 11 and the hole left by a missing family member, it's about loneliness and the connections between two very different people. Also, one of the protagonists is a young woman that I found much more likeable that the little boy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly close, and more so than the boy in DeWitt's Last Samurai. I’m so glad to hear you are reading Foer as well … and I’m sure you have many books to read, but you might also check out The History of Love by Foer’s novelist wife, Nicole Krauss. Ignore the title and jump into a really well crafted book that is just as engaging and equally (more?) well written. I read it before I read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and it colored the latter book for me a bit. Rather than being about Sept 11 and the hole left by a missing family member, it’s about loneliness and the connections between two very different people. Also, one of the protagonists is a young woman that I found much more likeable that the little boy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly close, and more so than the boy in DeWitt’s Last Samurai.

]]> http://www.rationalcontemporary.com/archives/73/comment-page-1#comment-126 Moira Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:32:01 +0000 http://www.rationalcontemporary.com/?p=73#comment-126 So glad you like the book. I'm getting that great vicarious-joy feeling knowing someone else is discovering Foer. Are you going to be able to abandon it in a train station when finished? I wasn't able to leave <em>White Teeth</em>; it was worth so much more than its weight in my backpack. So glad you like the book. I’m getting that great vicarious-joy feeling knowing someone else is discovering Foer. Are you going to be able to abandon it in a train station when finished? I wasn’t able to leave White Teeth; it was worth so much more than its weight in my backpack.

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