Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Series: A Novel (No Series)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Pages: 326
Book's Description:       Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.

Extremely Loud& Incredibly Close is Amazing.
This book made me laugh so much, and it's hard to find a book that does that to me. The first page had me laughing, and smiling at Oskar's thoughts. This book doesn't just contain Oskar's story though. It also has his grandparent's story. Oh so it's there's going to be a lovely dovey story on the side? Not quite. It's not at all a love story, or perhaps it is. It's pretty hard to tell. All in all, this story is about a young boy who lost his father in the 9/11 attacks, and is now on a journey to find the lock that fits the key, that was hidden in his fathers vase. It is definitly a must read.

Rating: 5 starsFavorite Quotes:
“Well, what I don’t get is why do we exist? I don’t mean how, but why.” I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, “We exist because we exist.” “What the?” “We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”

“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”

“Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are.”

“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”

“Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.”

Preview Of Book: http://www.amazon.com/Extremely-Incredibly-Close-Jonathan-Safran/dp/0618329706

Praise For Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a miracle, a daybreak, a man on the moon. It's so impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving and fine." -Baltimore Sun
"Foer is definitely a new fort of literary warrior- virtuosic, visionary, ingenious, hilarious, heartbreaking. He brings an astonishing array of firepower to the page." -Village Voice
"Energetic, inventive, and ambitious...an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11." -Boston Globe