Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Max Ostrovsky - GoodreadsSo here's a book that can't decide on what kind of book it is. While I ended up enjoying it, it's not a book I would recommend to all my friends. Rather, any of my friends. This is my first reading of ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Erica Verrillo - GoodreadsThere was so much that was wonderful about this book that I hate to criticize it. Foer is without doubt a brilliant young writer who puts his whole heart and soul into print. The sheer energy with ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Barbara Geffen - GoodreadsThis book was my introduction to a powerful new (to me) writer. So young, yet so old. How can he understand so much about the world that was? It is as if Isaac B. Singer meets Phillip Roth in an ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Erin - GoodreadsSo Jonathan Safran Foer sounds like a prat on the radio. He sounds like a self-assured genius, who is maybe also judging you for eating meat. And so I put off reading Everything is Illuminated because ... Read full review
Review: Everything is Illuminated
User Review - Kevin - GoodreadsThis is a difficult book to review. Within Everything is Illuminated there are two, interwoven stories; one a straight-forward and mostly humorous, the other a heavily stylized work of magical realism ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Stephanie "Jedigal" - GoodreadsI thoroughly enjoyed this tale, presented by two unreliable narrators: Jonathon, a young American man who has traveled to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather from the invading ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - GoodreadsAn incredibly complex, well-thought out, funny, intelligent, heartfelt book. It took a little while and time to realize the format of the three sub-books: the narrative of Alex, the Ukrainian who ...
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Sebastiaan van Jole - GoodreadsI expected an epic (because some people are praising the book through heaven's doors) tragicomedy which would be a tad difficult to read, because of one of the main characters Sasha, who is a master ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Marie-Claude Plourde - GoodreadsAt first, I was very disoriented by that book; as a reader of English as a second language, and even though I am a translator working very often from and into this language, I felt like it was really ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Rochelle - GoodreadsA poignant, and ultimately starkly haunting tale of an American Jew who comes to the Ukraine to search for and to thank the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. It is also a tale of ... Read full review
