**** some great poems and some shockers

very little of interest in this miscellany of kafka trivia

** Witty and entertaining if depressing. If Foer is anything like his protagonist, he is a never-changing, over-psychoanalyzed, sad Seinfeld character. You understand why the wife moves on. Also, his consumer choices in the novel are from some stratosphere I do not inhabit: organic beds? recessed light switches? They are not even on my radar, much less my "want" list!