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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone, Jeff Woodman
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Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, great explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies, Beatles memorabilia, miniature cacti and coral. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, his inward journey towards some kind of peace takes him on an odyssey through the five boroughs of New York, as he attempts to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet....

©2005 Jonathan Safran Foer (P)2005 Recorded Books LLC Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction
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the narration is excellent and added another dimension to a book that I already loved

top 10 books

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Great snapshot of a broken New York post 9/11. Needs slight improvement in audio quality.

Great performances but background noise in audio.

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Where does Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The best!

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Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes!

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There is a massive technical error in one of the last chapters which resulted in, that I actually was unable to hear a part of this chapter. I would like my money back!

Amazing narration and story but massive techerror

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This book is beautiful. But what makes it even more special is the narration. Normally I listen to an audiobook while driving my car and then read the physical book when I’m home. But for this one I wouldn’t want to miss one bit of the narration. It’s like a sound movie, if that makes sense. And as such it deserves... an Oscar!

Sublime

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Brilliant, wise, emotional, funny and increadibly sad at the same time. Perfect narrators made it very vivid.

I just finished it and am falling apart.wonderful

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This is such a great book. Hearing it as an audio book was a great experience as well, the narrators are fantastic and perfectly fit the characters.
Especially the grandparents I loved those narrators.
The main character Oscar is actually pretty annoying and egoistic but he is a kid so....
A few plot elements are left unresolved like what was in the safe or what happened to Oscars friend mr. Black. This type of thing does not normally bother me but since this book has no real plot to speak of (it is more intellectual/philosophical musings and parallels to ww2) it would have been nice if the author had followed through on the few plot elements that exist.

But overall highly recommended.

Fantastic

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