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Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Karen Burden Marcia Langton Big Red Tanith Glynn-Maloney A day of feeling alive in four decades of life? View all 27 comments. Feb 26, Helene Jeppesen rated it it was amazing. It wasn't the writing - which a lot of people seem to praise him for - that affected me the most. Actually, it's hard to put a finger on what exactly it was. But several times during my reading of this novel I almost teared up because it affected me emotionally in a way that no other book has for a long time.

It deals with Jacob in America and Jews and Israel. It's a funny combination that works so well. One of the things that won my heart over in this novel - besides from the adorable children and pet - was Jacob's digressions.

He could be describing a scene and then suddenly turn to a childhood memory and thoughts provoked by that memory before going back to the original scene, and it all related and made perfect sense in the end. I am very impressed by this unique novel, and I'm convinved I have to read more by this author who, according to this book, has a lot of impressive thoughts, things and stories to offer. View all 4 comments.

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Mar 01, Andrew Smith rated it did not like it Shelves: Let me be clear, I only award one star to books I fail to finish. I failed to finish this book. The problems for me were: B Let me be clear, I only award one star to books I fail to finish. But it seems that the learned journalists whose observations I fell upon were keen to engage in erudite discussion that left me as cold as the book itself.

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View all 21 comments. Dec 01, Chelsea Humphrey marked it as dnf-paused Shelves: Just wasn't for me. View all 12 comments. Full review to come. Jun 16, Jaline rated it really liked it Shelves: My experience of reading this book got off to a rocky start, but to be fair, in the long run, it has its redeeming qualities as well. Well, that was going to be my format for this review, but because I do not like to over-react see 1 below , I will put it differently, but without repression see 1 below. Things on my Not To Like list: I have always loved dancing but this was not music, and not my idea of a good time or a good read.

Which leads me to. This purging happens a few times sporadically through the book, like a bad case of flu that is taking someone a long time to get over. Along with bad usage of language, the presence of an editor would have helped this book — particularly during the first few chapters, but even later in the book as well. They applied their intelligence to what was ultimately not a question of intelligence, like applying a Phillipshead screwdriver to a crossword puzzle.

Things on my To Like list: The dialogue between family members was, at times, lots of fun — and very funny. This is an obviously intelligent family and even Benjy, the youngest, comes out with some endearingly funny and spot-on comments.

They all had their moments, and I loved those moments. Even the arguments between Jacob and his father had a real, if at times futile, ring to them. My urge to bring out my referee whistle diminished over time. Maybe I was inured to it by then, or maybe more accepting that their arguments were what kept their relationship alive and vital — for both of them. Even though it is imaginary albeit predicted , the earthquake sequence taking place in the Middle East juxtaposed with the family crisis was well done.

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The 15 Days reports that were issued on the state of affairs in the Middle East, both physical and political held tremendous impact and felt real, tragic, and deeply frightening. May they never come to pass in reality. By themselves, these portions of the book earned an extra half-star.

The ending of the book was very well done. Balanced out, the good parts of this book did outweigh the bad parts although my preference would have been for the bad parts not to have been there at all — or, at the very least, that a different approach could have been taken that would have been as, if not more effective in getting the points across. View all 39 comments. Since the moment I heard that the god of contemporary authors, Jonathan Safran Foer, was going to be releasing a new novel, the barely-concealed bookworm inside me has been almost continually squealing with excitement.

The novel focuses upon a family living in Washington DC. Jacob and Julia Bloch have been married for si Since the moment I heard that the god of contemporary authors, Jonathan Safran Foer, was going to be releasing a new novel, the barely-concealed bookworm inside me has been almost continually squealing with excitement. Here I Am is a deep familial jigsaw, which has been incredibly well pieced together.

The dialogue is wonderfully constructed, and there is a very dark humour to it in places, which adds a great balance to the whole. Above all, the novel feels very believable; the characters are lifelike, and their problems and interactions are very realistic indeed. As always, the Jewish history which Safran Foer has included was both rich and fascinating.

In terms of the plot, Here I Am begins in a manner which feels less historically reliant than Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , but this history builds, and is consequently used in masterful ways. He is an incredibly thoughtful and understanding author, who sees the importance and consequences of many things which have occurred throughout history; primarily, here, the focus is upon the effects of the Holocaust upon the children and grandchildren of survivors. I was pulled into Here I Am immediately, and despite its almost page count, I found myself racing through it, quite unable to put it down.

Never once does the story become lost. I was reminded of Zoe Heller throughout also a wonderful contemporary author , who examines similar themes in The Believers Identity, family, and Jewishness are the most prevalent of these. Here I Am is as strong a novel as his previous works, but it feels like a departure of sorts from them; it is a more grown-up novel, with less experimental writing, and a dose more realism. Here I Am feels very personal on a number of levels, and the ending is nothing short of heartbreaking. I loved this well-realised and masterful novel, but I must admit that in no way was it what I was expecting.

View all 3 comments. It isn't what it's talking about that makes a book Jewish - it's that the book won't shut up. Philip Roth Mind you, talking about bar mitzvahs and rituals and Holocaust and eruv and Zionism and homeland and Torah and kosher food and Israel and Hebrew and seder does kind of give the game away. I come away exhausted: I suppose that makes it sound terribly clever - you know, a bit too clever for its own good, and I'm afraid that's probably a criticism that can be levelled with some justification. The aqua seafoam doesn't quite sustain the dystopian cataclysm.

The manic pace view spoiler [such a welcome change from Villette hide spoiler ] gives an aura of glibness rather than gravity. There are plenty, oh yes plenty, of parallels and resonances and echoing themes in there, but it would take two weeks of study to unpick them all, shake them out and scrabble through the debris. But that's not why I read Foer, to tease out all the manifold connections.

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It's the sheer blast of skeetering joy he gives. The narrator as god and creator of this huge fictional world. I'm not sure if it is weighty - there'd be the two weeks of teasing out to decide on that - but lawks it is fun. View all 13 comments. I found the story disjointed to begin with, but after about 50 pages I settled into its pattern. I thought the way that Julia and Jacob's relationship changed over time was developed in an interesting way.

It kept me eager to find out more about them and their family. I found the sections relating to the avatars thought provoking. I enjoyed some of the humour, but felt that much of it was lost on me, because my cultural background is so different from that of the protagonists. I found the sudden change of focus halfway the book quite strange, and I didn't find it an easy one.

I'm sure that Jonathan Safran Foer had a clear intention as to why he did this, but I thought it made the first and second half of the book disconnected. I found the part of the plot relating to the Middle East hard to follow, and I wasn't engaged enough to try to understand it more.

There were still aspects of the 'family' story that I enjoyed in the second half of the book, but overall I lost interest. This novel did not come up to my expectations. It may be that I am not the audience that Jonathan Safran Foer was aiming for, but I found the novel overlong, confusing and often uninteresting. View all 9 comments. Sep 20, Emily May rated it it was ok Shelves: Foer explores what it means to be a Jew in this epic, messy monster of a book.

He starts with a Franzen-style look at the American family - a spiraling web of relationships and conflicts that on its own would have still resulted in a dense, challenging work, but probably one significantly less convoluted and more satisfying. The protagonist is Jacob - a modern day version of the biblical man by the same name. Much of his conflict - internal and external - is either about family or faith, reminiscent of his namesake. Foer makes a lot of interesting observations about humanity, Americans and Jews, and it is the family aspect of the book where he shines.

However, the novel just gets weighed down more and more by everything else Foer keeps adding. The geopolitical conflicts between Israel and the Arab world add another huge layer to an already complex novel. This drags the second half of the book down and, unfortunately, the introduction of the struggles in the Middle East made me lose interest in the parts of the story I was previously enjoying. A messy, chaotic book that zooms between big ideas and forges massive connections between the personal and political, between the family and the state of Israel.

JSF uses these dual scenarios to explore issues of identity and Jewishness, fractures between Jews and Israelis, and questions of national identity versus common humanity. The whole book A messy, chaotic book that zooms between big ideas and forges massive connections between the personal and political, between the family and the state of Israel. The whole book reads like an unstoppable outpouring of ideas that feels almost unmediated, almost spontaneous in its untidiness. We can't help but feel that we're in the presence of something deeply intelligent, deeply creative In parts thrilling, in others laborious, a difficult, idiosyncratic and iconoclastic book.

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Thanks to the publisher for an ARC via Netgalley I was the perfect audience for this novel. I'm a huge fan of JSF's fiction, and I had a Jewish upbringing exactly like the one that was the focus of the book. Here I Am contains several storylines that were unsuccessfully wound together. We have the imagined destruction of Israel which could have made for a grand and fascinating telling, but it was a more or less an abandoned plot-line.

We also have the destruction of a marriage, but there was nothing there we haven't seen before. There I was the perfect audience for this novel. There were no fleshed out characters to be found. The writing was beautiful as always, but I found it was lacking his signature strangeness that I was so looking forward to a la Everything is Illuminated.

I loved the deep cultural references to the Ashkenazi-American experience, but anyone who isn't from that background will likely be confused, as everything was presented without context. It seems like this was written for JSF himself; everything from his life and his brain whipped together into a neat package for his own enjoyment. While I enjoyed parts of this enough to give it 3 stars, nothing in here moved me-- a huge disappointment coming from an author whose two previous works moved me more than anything else especially Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

I am very interested to see how this is received by the masses once it's released in a few weeks. I wanted to love this but it wasn't in the cards for me. I hope it will speak to some other readers. Sep 24, Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld rated it it was amazing. A book about the slow disintegration of a marriage while constantly meditating on what it means to be Jewish. I spend almost three weeks reading it while working on my Master's Thesis.

I found it to be quite beautiful and at times heartbreaking. I'm curious as to what gentile readers think of it. Foer is not very inclusive and I imagine that to someone unfamiliar with Judaism and Jewish culture lots of concepts, words and philosophical discussions will seem foreign and impenetrable. View all 10 comments.

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The Israel stuff left me cold. View all 14 comments.

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Personaggi e scrittura non si discutono, ottimi livelli per entrambi. May 14, Gemma rated it it was amazing Shelves: Not an easy one for my first ever review! This is a long novel with a lot going on. Perhaps a little too much. There were large parts I absolutely loved. The family life of Jewish couple Jacob and Julia Bloch, their three boys and dog was riveting.

And Foer is so good at getting the amazing and profound things young children can suddenly come out with. I loved the three boy Not an easy one for my first ever review!

I loved the three boys in this book. A catastrophic earthquake in the Middle East unlocks all the tensions there and before long Israel is under attack. The Bloch family experience this as newsreel footage, almost like virtual reality, which is nicely contrasted by the virtual world in which the eldest son spends a lot of his time and the sextexts Joseph has exchanged with a female work colleague and Julia stumbles upon.

View all 17 comments. It explores the breakdown of a marriage and religious identity for Jewish Americans and Israelis. It's very easy to feel you are reading an account of Foer and Krauss's marriage ending. Foer does some exciting stuff with form: There are some real laugh out loud moments in here and it's infinitely quotable. Dec 15, Nathan "N. The total production period, from start to finish, was six days, which is an extremely aggressive turnaround for a project that was all green screen and visual effects. This was necessary to premier the music video at the Hollywood screening of the film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

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