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In this excellent recording of Foer's second novel, Woodman artfully captures the voice of nine-year-old Oskar Schell, the precocious amateur physicist who is looking to uncover clues about his father's death on September 11. Oskar—a self-proclaimed pacifist, tambourine player and Steven Hawking fanatic—is the ideal mixture of smart-aleck maturity and youthful innocence. Articulating the big words slowly and thoroughly with merely a hint of childishness, Woodman endearingly conveys the voice of a youngster who is trying desperately to sound such as an adult. The parallel story lines, beautifully narrated by Ferrone and Caruso, add variety to the imaginative and captivating plot, nonetheless they do not translate as seamlessly into audio format. Ferrone's wistful growl is ideal for your voice of your man who is able to no longer speak, consider the listener actually gets to listen to the words that the character is only able to convey by writing over a notepad, his frustrating silence is much less profound. Caruso's brilliant performance as a possible adoring grandmother can be noteworthy, however the meandering stream-of-consciousness kind of her and Ferrone's sections are sometimes hard to follow on audio. Although it can be Oskar's poignant, laugh-out-loud narration which make this audio production indispensable.
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Adult/High School-Oskar Schell is not your average nine-year-old. A budding inventor, he spends his time imagining wonderful creations. He also collects random photographs for his scrapbook and sends letters to scientists. When his father dies inside World Trade Center collapse, Oskar shifts his boundless energy to a search for answers. He finds an important hidden in the father's items that doesn't fit any lock in their New York City apartment; its container is labeled "Black." Using flawless kid logic, Oskar sets out to speak to everyone in New York City with the last name of Black. A retired journalist who keeps a card catalog with entries for everyone he's ever met is just one of the colorful characters the boy meets. As in Things Are Illuminated (Houghton, 2002), Foer requires a dark subject and works in offbeat humor with puns and wordplay. But Extremely Loud pushes further while using inclusion of photographs, illustrations, and mild experiments in typography reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (Dell, 1973). The humor works being a deceptive, glitzy cover to get a fairly serious tale about loss and recovery. For balance, Foer includes the subplot of Oskar's grandfather, who survived the The second world war bombing of Dresden. Even though this story is less than as evocative as Oskar's, it can carry forward and connect firmly towards the rest from the novel. The two stories finally intersect inside a powerful conclusion that will make even essentially the most jaded hearts fall.-Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale
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