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Kris Tina kxp11 — Good book - really gives a good idea of the hardships of climbing Mt. Everest.

Marek Rojek lettera — The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein (1980)

Jonathan Heckman _ — The Thursday Next novels just keep getting better with each reading!

Ying Zhang vying026d49c — Tess Thompson English 10 9/6/2011 Book Review B Safran Foer, Jonathan. Everything is Illuminated. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Everything is Illuminated was one of the worst, most discombobulating books I have ever read. The complex language, lengthy descriptions, and strange characters make the book a bore to read. However, that does not mean it was not a quality piece of writing with its own sense of personality. Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel tells the story of a young man searching for his roots in Ukraine, while simultaneously narrating the story of a rural village town from the 18th century. Both of these plots come together, intertwined, but the journey to the conclusion is a confusing one. The style in which Foer chose to narrate the story was intense at best and downright insane at worst. While it is good to have a fresh perspective when writing, the constant shift between time periods and voice made the story unbearable to understand. I appreciate Foer’s creativity in progressing the story by generation, with additional correspondence between the characters as well as present-day events, but attempting to understand anything in the first 115 pages is exhausting. The constant use of vague vocabulary, shocking events, and off-topic rants of insignificant detail make reading this novel feel like riding a roller coaster that never ends. For example, someone named Cain is described for almost an entire page and is then promptly forgotten. “But much to his surprise, it was Cain who caned, Cain who was cursed to labor the earth, Cain who was forced to wear that terrible mark, Cain who, for all of his sad and witty verse, could get laid every night, but didn’t know anyone who had read a page of his magnum opus” (Foer 206). While extreme examinations of each minute thought and passerby can be good in some writing situations, it does not add value to the novel as whole. The characters in Everything is Illuminated have an ongoing philosophy debate, asking themselves questions and pondering the meaning of love in their life. Brod in particular, the great-great-great-great-great grandmother of the main character, is very intellectual and thinks up deep subjects in her mind. As she examines her neighbors, she thinks: “Or maybe it was the scene of something improper, and in the haste to be rid of the evidence, new evidence was created. Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damned spot, wouldn’t her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?” (Foer 88). Brod’s introspective thoughts are passed on through to her descendants, the other individuals in the novel, and this similar thinking facilitates a connection across decades. Comprehensive thinking also gives the reader more insight into the otherwise dull characters and plot sequences. While Everything is Illuminated was not my favorite summer reading book, one of the few things I liked about it was the ending. It finished by not finishing, no closure provided to end the mysteries and give the reader comfort. Foer left the story open to consider and think about on our own time, breathing timid new life into the characters that lives on after the writing ends. The present-day characters’ lives are only hinted at through letters of correspondence, but it gives the reader hope that they will carry on to accomplish the dreams they set out to achieve.

Ivo Costa ivocmcosta — There's no way to really encapsulate what this book has meant to me. It is a very simple story but the magnitude of the message has really impacted me and my understanding of the Atonement. Completely breathtaking and revolutionary for me. Beautiful to say the least.