Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.


When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he disovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.©2005 Jonathan Safran Foer (P)2005 Recorded Books

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Where does Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close rank among all the audiobooks you???ve listened to so far?

the narration is excellent and added another dimension to a book that I already loved

Great performances but background noise in audio.

Great snapshot of a broken New York post 9/11. Needs slight improvement in audio quality.

Amazing narration and story but massive techerror

Where does Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The best!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close?

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Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

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Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes!

Any additional comments?

There is a massive technical error in one of the last chapters which resulted in, that I actually was unable to hear a part of this chapter. I would like my money back!

Sublime

This book is beautiful. But what makes it even more special is the narration. Normally I listen to an audiobook while driving my car and then read the physical book when I’m home. But for this one I wouldn’t want to miss one bit of the narration. It’s like a sound movie, if that makes sense. And as such it deserves... an Oscar!

I just finished it and am falling apart.wonderful

Brilliant, wise, emotional, funny and increadibly sad at the same time. Perfect narrators made it very vivid.