itibaren Scamblesby, Louth, Lincolnshire LN11, İngiltere
Revisiting this after five years away from Foer, I liked it less but not enough to downgrade a star. I think JSF can turn a phrase but Oskar didn't ring true to me as a character and the whole novel suffered as a result. So many of the extras incorporated into the narrative distract and detract from what is, at its heart, a powerful and emotionally resonant story.
This book is probably of far more interest to someone with a legal background, and specifically someone with an interest in securities law and litigation. That isn't to say it's not entertaining, but the authors have more or less written a history of how the securities laws have evolved since the 1970s through the lens of the most infamous securities class action lawyer from that period. Unless you're taken by the discussions of politics and policy that pervade the narrative, it will generally read like a run-of-the-mill "spectacular rise and fall of X personality" story.