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Tree Of Codes (2010)

by Jonathan Safran Foer(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0956569218 (ISBN13: 9780956569219)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Visual Editions

series

Visual Editions

review 1: I don’t like artsy crap. If this book is written seriously, then artsy crap is what it is. However, if this is written/created as a little protest against e-books (which, apparently Foer is not very fond of) then I quite like it. But if that’s the case, then why bother reading it? I have no idea. I read this book because I wanted another story from one of my favorite authors (based on ”Everything is illuminated” NOT ”Extremely loud and incredibly close”) but I ended up very disappointed, as this story made absolutely no sense.
review 2: This book is a conundrum for rating. I wish I had already read Street of Crocodiles first; I have a feeling my rating would be different if I had familiarity with its inspiration first. This is a phenomenal book if... more we look at a book as a visual work of art, manipulating space with words. From that perspective, this book is a 5-star read. I loved the touch of the book and the look of it. While I saw many recommendations of taking a sheet of paper so you could read the words on the page more clearly, I found it to be much more enjoyable to leave the page of top of the others, seeing the future peaking through the pages. It is a bit of literary voyeurism, enabling you to glance at what is yet to come. This works if you view this not as a story, but rather as an art work, akin to e.e. cummings' concrete poems that are meant to be looked at more than they are to be read.As a novel, this book falls miserably. It is a long list of beautiful sounding phrases: "He calmed down when the wallpaper shed its petals" or "How beautiful is forgetting! what relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents". It is unfortunately little more than that. Its need to remain within the construct of the original text by Schulz hampers its ability to narrative and this seems to be more of an experiment of "what if" within literature rather than a novel intended to be read. As a curiosity, this piece is outstanding. As a work of literature, this book leaves much to be desired. less

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