Andrea L.
For the most part, it was an amazing, unusual, endearing book. I disliked the sexual descriptions in the letters to the son and grandson because - truly - what child wants to read that about their parents or grandparents, and it felt gratuitous to me. Even though Oskar was dealing with some serious darkness of his own, I was always glad to get back to his part of the narration because it felt as though I was coming into light out of darkness....into air out of suffocation. I didn't object to the darkness and suffocation, because they were a very realistic response to what Grandma (did it really never say her first name, or have I just forgotten it?) and Thomas Sr. went through, but I was very glad of the reprieves that Oskar's perspective provided. Because I love Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, I am considering watching the movie, but am a bit afraid - both that it will be too graphic in places and that it will not do the book justice - 2 hours is not - after all - very much time in which to address the intricacies of this book.