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Fans of the perennially successful Blue Devils made it on for being intolerably “annoying,” “geeky,” and “loud...
Nine-year olds, especially precocious, Shakespeare-quoting, environmentalist-vegan ones, get irritating really fast. When the child narrator of Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, talks about farting three times in the first paragraph––and his anus twice––he seems poised to set a new low for his age demographic...
Oskar’s father was at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of one of the Twin Towers, on Sept. 11, 2001. He was killed in the ensuing attack, and Extremely Loud tells the story of Oskar’s attempt to come to terms with his father’s death, sometimes by inventing strange contraptions that might have saved...
...other hand, Foer makes a welcome effort to contextualize Sept. 11, and what saves Extremely Loud from being a kind of ode to its earth-shattering enormity is his presentation of other tragedies as predecessors. In addition to stories about the American destruction of Dresden, there is a transcript of an interview with a Hiroshima survivor, which Oskar plays for a school project, also reporting on the scientific dimensions of the atom bomb...
...entering her second term as co-chair, says she fell in love with the group when she met some HRSFen pre-frosh weekend and attended the monthly “Milk and Cookies” event, a Saturday night on which members read out loud short stories of their choosing...