Foer does a good job of dismantling marketing techniques used by the meat industry to keep consumers buying - terms like "humane", "free-range", "organic" and "grass-fed". He offers first-hand accounts of factory farming, its brutal efficiency and its appalling practices. Foer explains why this m...
Rating: 4.25 - 4.5An interesting and bizarre analysis of the passage of time and inevitability of death and decay. Hits on many heavy subjects such as depression and embracing the essence of life after a tragic death in the family. It described society as a uniformed whole, lost and continually c...
Very interesting and fun to read, but how can you in good conscience decide that eating animals is wrong and consuming dairy is not? The dairy industry practices are at least as disturbing, if not more so. The question should at the very least have been raised in the book, which it sadly isn't; v...
I feel I do not need to review this, as I read both individually. However, I will add for those who have only watched the films, READ the books! Please! My 11 year old daughter watched Everything Is Illuminated and she was terribly upset by the ending. I told her to pick up my copy of the book & ...
Sometimes reading makes me so angryDammit.I’m a freaking mess. I realize this and I accept it.Ugh.Why, Jonathan Safran Foer? Why? Why do you do this to me? And why the hell are you so young? I know that some call you gimmicky and think that you are just a phosphoresce in the pannikin (yes, I,...
Extremely Loud and Incredbily Close: Jonathan Foer's novel of love, loss, and memoryThere are events that leave an indelible stamp on us for a great portion of our lives. This happens from generation to generation.Ask those living at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor where they were and wha...
Most of this book I didn't like. Why, then, the four stars? Well, two of the stories in here are so good that I would pay the purchase price of this book just to read them a single time. But then, would we buy anthologies if books were nickelodeons and bookstores arcades?But the stories, worth th...
PrefaceThis volume contains two collections of short stories and three additional stories that were originally published with Schulz's letters, drawings and miscellaneous prose.I'll review each of the collections separately under their GR titles.After only two or three stories, I started having r...