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Oskar Schell is a very funny and smart kid – so much so that it comes at the expense of making his character not real and believable – and this little kid is on a mission that will piece together the history of a family over a few generations. The little girl in The History of Love was doing the same, and you end up thinking: This surely can’t be a coincidence. I wonder if Foer and Nicole Krauss talk to each other regarding their books when they’re writing them. Do they read each other’s manuscripts? Do they give feedback, and influence each other’s writing? After reading three books by this couple, I think I can see a pattern. Both of them write stories that span over generations and are narrated by different people at different times and with different styles. The stories are about human tragedies of grand scale and hit you pretty hard emotionally. I’ve really liked these three books, but I wish they would direct their talent to writing something different for a change. Regardless of inter-couple influence and similarities, this is another great book by Foer, and is very inventive and original when you get down to the details of the story. I really liked his bold experiments with unconventional writing styles and inserting pictures in his book.

This book made me so upset I have had a hard time thinking about how to voice my review of it in a nice and condensed manner. I feel that the author was so incredibly far-fetched and off target with her ideas about how things went for the March family parents and their behaviors. I was outrageously disappointed that Brooks felt it in-character to make Mr. March a man of lust to the point where he is immoral and is caught in foulplay. I never had the impression while reading "Little Women" that there was a rift in Mr. and Mrs. March's relationship (especially since he was being carnal) and I highly doubt Alcott ever envisioned anything for a family of such high morals and values. I thought Brooks took obscene problems from our society and plastered them all over a wholesome and classic family. A horrible read and I'm a little sorry I bothered finishing it.