Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Daniel - GoodreadsNon-linear narrative is, for me, often fun to read but commonly done poorly. Only a few writers (mostly of Latin- or South American origin) seem to fully exploit the potential of a story revealed in ... Read full review
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 - Anastasia Feschuk - GoodreadsThis is the first book I read of Jonathan Safran Foer's, and I can now say he is one of my most favourite authors. Foer uses such an intricate way of developing the adventurous plot line, bouncing ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Anna - GoodreadsAlex, a main character, writes, "Humor is the only truthful way to tell a sad story." Exactly. This is one of the few novels I've read, where tragedy and comedy are mixed so well. Alex also writes ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Sheri - GoodreadsSo, my husband (who spends quite a bit of time painting) and I have lots of conversations about the irony involved in the fact that lots of what is considered "art" is really just shock value. We've ... 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 - Jen August - GoodreadsI listened to the audio version of this book. This book was a little bit challenging. I enjoyed the writing style, employing separate voices and syntax for each character and since this was the audio ... Read full review
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Goodreadsthe fist few chapters of 'everything is illuminated' are sprinkled with a comfortably earthy humor, and a lack of Important Srs Bznss that's rather refreshing for a much-lauded litfic sort of novel ...
Review: Everything Is Illuminated
User Review - Kaylynn Johnsen - GoodreadsThis is the date I finished trying to read this book. It's not that I couldn't, it's that I don't want to. I've muddled through worse, but the older I get the less I want to waste my time. I had high ... 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
