Review: Everything is Illuminated
User Review - Jaycob - GoodreadsSome people call Jonathan Safran Foer a gimmicky writer. Whatever, maybe I just love the gimmick. This is a one of a kind book. The way Foer plays with the English language in Alex's sections is ... Read full review
Review: Everything is Illuminated
User Review - Kristin - GoodreadsThis book has all the makings of a great heroic quest - The hero? An American by the same name of the author The task? Find the woman whose family saved his Grandfather from the Nazis. Long perilous ... Read full review
Review: Everything is Illuminated
User Review - Ksenia Everton - GoodreadsMost of this book takes place in western Ukraine, when I am from, but from a perspective of a quirky American, Jewish vegetarian who is trying to learn about his ancestors and his Ukrainian guide ... 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 - Kevin Zevallos - GoodreadsEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer is a very creative novel that is based on the author's own experience in the Ukraine. The main character, also Jonathan Safran Foer,goes to Ukraine in ... Read full review
Review: Everything is Illuminated
User Review - Libyrinths - GoodreadsThe blurbs said "zany", which I thought applied to the entire book. Goes to show that Blurbers seldom read more than 25 pages of any book, if they do that. Nonetheless, the first part of the book is ... Read full review
Review: Everything is Illuminated
User Review - Jenny - GoodreadsThe author came to the National Book Festival last year, and my husband assigned me the task of waiting in line to get this book signed (Andrew had about nine different authors to see in one day, so ... 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
Review: Everything is Illuminated
User Review - Felicity - GoodreadsWhat can I say about this book? At times it touched me so very deeply, while at other times, especially during Foer's history of Trachimbrod, I felt a little bored. Not all the time, I hasten to add ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - International Cat Lady - GoodreadsI thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though I only gave it four (instead of five) stars. I had watched the movie (starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hutz) several times before reading the book. As is ... Read full review
