Ogni cosa è illuminata

Sometimes reading makes me so angry Dammit. I’m a freaking mess. I realize this and I accept it. Ugh. Why, Jonathan Safran Foer? Why? Why do you do this to me? And why the hell are you so young? I know that some call you gimmicky and think that you are just a phosphoresce in the pannikin (yes, I, too, h Leggi tutto

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (Dutton, 2002) My, what a clever novel! In any case, that, I imagine, is what Jonathan Safran Foer kept saying as he was writing this. And really, much about it is clever. The comparisons to A Clockwork Orange are completely unwarranted, as Alex, Foer's Leggi tutto

I watched the movie of this first and loved it. It was basically a movie about cultural misunderstanding and how people can be cruel without really knowing it. It is a story about what happens when you put an American and someone born out of the Soviet era in the same room and try to make them expla Leggi tutto

welcome back to project 5 star , in which i ill-advisedly pick up books i remember fondly and put them to the test of my current evil mind. and, well. i'd like to apologize for 18 year old me. she knew not what she'd wrought. this does have moments of true loveliness and piercing observations of the hum Leggi tutto

One of the nice things about being stoned is the added dimension of humor or profundity that otherwise inconsequential things can assume in our impression of them. I remember once having my mind blown at the idea of language, and how any two unrelated people, having been raised in the same country a Leggi tutto

Cineva a inițiat pe vremuri un concurs pornind de la îndemnul: „Rezumați într-o propoziție cît mai scurtă romanul lu Marcel Proust În căutarea timpului pierdut ...”. Cel care a cîștigat întrecerea a propus acest enunț minimal: „Marcel învață să scrie”. I-aș urma exemplul și aș rezuma romanul lui Foer Leggi tutto

Sorry but I didn't care for this at all. If Mr. Nobody wrote a book about himself as the main character, and used some uninventive malapropisms to make discussions with a foreigner amusing, the book would be tossed. But wait, Foer went to Yale. Unfortunately for me the quality of his writing shows m Leggi tutto