http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/10/09/the-whole-world-over-again/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:17:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/10/09/the-whole-world-over-again/#comment-36091 Linda Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:23:18 +0000 http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/10/09/the-whole-world-over-again/#comment-36091 It sounds like you had another great discussion with you group. I didn't connect with any of the first crop of 9/11 novels -- at first. It was more than it was just too soon to see events in context, but I can't quite pinpoint what my mood was that made me almost resent novels such as Ian McEwan's "Saturday" and Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." Now when I look back, I enjoy them more. Maybe I needed the distance for context, but the authors didn't. It sounds like you had another great discussion with you group. I didn’t connect with any of the first crop of 9/11 novels — at first. It was more than it was just too soon to see events in context, but I can’t quite pinpoint what my mood was that made me almost resent novels such as Ian McEwan’s “Saturday” and Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” Now when I look back, I enjoy them more. Maybe I needed the distance for context, but the authors didn’t.

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