I still find it very interesting how difficult\u00a0 it is to articulate some (well, most) aspects of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.\u00a0 I love this book and I do think it’s cute.\u00a0\u00a0 As someone who experienced loss similar to Oskar’s as a child, I find the accuracy and profundity of his thoughts and experiences to be spot on.\u00a0 As a child I was much less creative, eccentric and adventurous than Oskar, but this is fiction after all.<\/p>\n
In the course of reading this novel there are so many moments when I say to myself, “I love that.”\u00a0 There are so many little heartbreaking moments as well.\u00a0 Maybe it is because I feel a strong personal connection to the story that it is difficult to think about it critically.\u00a0 Sometimes when you enjoy something so much it can seem to suck some of the pleasure out if it to analyze and dissect it.\u00a0 This seems to lead to a larger question which I have considered in the past as to whether analysis and criticism of art takes away from or adds to ones enjoyment of it.\u00a0 I think it can do both depending on the circumstance and the work of art itself.<\/p>\n
I don’t think it will lessen the enjoyment of ELIC by analyzing it.\u00a0 I don’t think it’s necessarily important which genre the novel may or may not fit into, I’m\u00a0 more interested in the characters themselves and what they are going through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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