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Book Review of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
reviewed on
Helpful Score: 2


I really hate to discourage readers, but this book really wasn't that good. I've seen the previews for the movie, which is the whole reason I bought the book. I found it to be very confusing. I had to go back and re-read pages because I got lost. Many of the dialogue scenes are especially confusing because it's unclear which character is talking. There are whole paragraphs where each sentence is divided into quotation marks, so you have to go back and re-read to determine who is talking when. I'm so disappointed with it that I won't even see the movie. I hope that someone else is able to better understand this book. If you do, please explain it to me. :-)