Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 1

This book is quite scattered in the beginning. I mean I suppose I could follow along, but it was quite hard to digest all of the information that he was giving me. Lots of description and development and stage setting in a very non cohesive order. I am a person that likes to keep things organized, so I became quite frustrated when I had to read through the beginning. And then all of a sudden, the narrator says that he can't speak and had to use a book to answer people's questions? That really caught me off guard. Like was this a terrible transition to a diary entry from a different character? It was dated in 1963 so Oskar was definitely not born, but it was such an abrupt change that I was too distracted by my own confusion to actually comprehend all that was going on in the chapter itself. I think I'm going to have to reread it lol. Plus, with all this testing and essays surrounding me right now I don't have a lot of focus to keep up with such a haphazardly written book. Maybe that's a bit much to say but it's the truth. I've heard so many good things about this book and i don't want to be disappointed. Hopefully I can give it the time and attention that it needs.