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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:44 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:50 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:02 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:05 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:35 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:38 pm
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I'd say, "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Summary taken from Wikipedia: A young American Jew, named after the author himself, journeys to Ukraine in search of Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather’s life during the Nazi liquidation of Trachimbrod, his family shtetl. Armed with many copies of an old photograph of Augustine and his grandfather, maps, cigarettes, and a fanny pack filled with Ziploc bags, Jonathan begins his adventure with Ukrainian native and soon-to-be good friend, Aleksandr "Alex" Perchov, who is his own age and very fond of American pop culture, albeit culture that is already out of date in the U.S. Alex is "premium" in his knowledge of the English language and therefore becomes the translator. Alex’s “blind” grandfather and his "deranged seeing-eye b***h," Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, accompany them on their journey.
At its core, the novel is a Holocaust story. The writing and structure received critical acclaim for the manner in which it switches between two story arcs: fragments of Foer-the-character's novel-in-progress, where he tells in highly literary English a quasi-magical story about the citizens of Trachimbrod; and a straightforward narrative of searching for Trachimbrod (which is an invented name for the real village Trochenbrod), as told by Alex in broken English. They are tied together by letters sent from Alex to Foer and attached to Alex's version. Alex's narrative is most notable for its broken English, as if a foreigner learned English with a thesaurus without ever hearing it spoken.
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I enjoyed the book and film very much. Its quite funny.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:46 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:11 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:49 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:49 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:51 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:24 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:26 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:58 am
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D a n g i o Miyou_darkninja99 You sould consider Blood And Chocolate. It is a great book you should check it out sometime. There was a movie made of that don't think i like it
I have yet to see the movie, but I agree Blood and Chocolate is a really good book. Lately I have been reading A Tale of Two Cites . Honestly, not my favorite book but it is okay, but you have to have a good attention span for it.
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