I am generally skeptical of pop culture trends. I finally saw Napoleon Dynamite about 5 years after it came out and hated it. I won’t touch the Twilight books and was fairly disgusted by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The suspicion of popular fiction I blame on my high school English teacher. He was this mop-headed hipster, and I mean a real hipster from the days when that term didn’t mean flannel and mustaches. To his credit, he taught me how to write. On the other hand, he convinced me that little published after 1960 was worth reading.
On that note, I read Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close this week. I adored it. I cried through the last 3/4. And I have to admit that I decided to read it after seeing the previews of the newly-released movie with Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. That’s right, a movie preview convinced me to read a book. But seriously, please give it a try.
I’m reading it right now! I have to admit, I started to read it after I saw a trailer for the movie as well. I’m glad to hear that someone really enjoyed this as much as I am.
I haven’t read that one yet, but I loved Everything is Illuminated by the same author.
So glad you are liking it, mmt!
@biblio, I’m also glad to hear you liked his first book. I’m nervous to start reading it in case it doesn’t live up to the expectations I have based on the other one.