I'm not sure about Everything is Illuminated. It took me ages to read - I would forget about it and ended up reading it over a few months. This is unusual; my tendency is to plow through even the worst books. I don't think it was a bad book though.
The structure of the book is slightly tiresome, a bit too clever. I found the main narrator irritating and thought the prose in his bits lacked consistency, like Foer got tired of writing in that voice and gave up towards the end.
The story itself is ok and I think bears rereading at some point. It's one of those books that might be better the second time because I know how to approach it. My friend and I talked briefly about it, she couldn't remember the plot but did remember how annoying she found it. Not exactly a recommendation to read it if you haven't. (Neither one of us liked Cloud Atlas either - this reminded me of that in the "too clever by half" sense.)
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In other news, my New Year's Resolution is to write down every book I read this year. We'll see how long that lasts.
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