Friday, March 31, 2006

But You Don't Have To Take My Word For It

Please, please read Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
It's in paperback.
This could be my pounding headache or three hours of sleep talking, but I am sure that you will like it. YOU MUST. Because God wants you to*. In the month since I finished it, I have not let the characters leave me. They haunt me like images of a Steve Perry-less Journey**.

*It is just not possible to know whether God does, indeed, want you to like it. But I suspect that God would be pleased to see you reading something at all.
**Not really. The characters are beautiful and flawed. A Steve Perry-less Journey is haunting in a different way. A bad and different way. Just read the book.

1 comment:

Anne said...

Reading Rainbow! I am reading Wicked right now, which is pretty good.