This novel completely got away from me and I didn't want to continue with it. I did eventually finish, but it took me a few months to get through this book.
Foer is a wonderful writer, he really is, which is why this novel threw me for such a loop. I was enjoying the storyline of the dissolution of Jacob and Julia's marriage, well, I guess as much as you can enjoy being a witness to something so painful. The writing was raw, tender, and so good. It started to unravel anytime any of their three children came into the scene–are there really kids that are that precocious?
He introduces a natural disaster which is incredibly distracting. Foer draws the reader's attention not only away from Jacob and Julia, but manages to draw the reader right out of the book. He should have simply stuck with this storyline and left it at that. Not only would he have greatly reduced the size of the novel (this is a whopping book at just shy of 600 pages), but the story would've flowed so much better—I literally felt like a dog chasing its tail.
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