9 August 2005
Everything Is Illuminated; Foer, Jonathan Safran
How did I hear about this book? I'm not sure, but a KQED interview of the author reminded of it back in April and I ordered it not long after. Many sections consist of a sort of dialect writing, with a Ukrainian narrator writing in thesaurus-laden English (as he explains: Like you know, I am not first rate with English. In Russian my ideas are asserted abnormally well, but my second tongue is not so premium. I undertaked to input the things you counseled me to, and I fatigued the thesaurus you presented me, as you counseled me to, when my words appeared too petite, or not befitting
). I thought it would get old, but it quickly dropped into the background, and now--at least in my head--I'm calling everything "premium."
Anxious to see the movie [IMDB] with Elijah Wood and written by Liev Schreiber.
Everything Is Illuminated; Foer, Jonathan Safran
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