We highly doubt the fellow traipsing about Amazon as Ethan Hawke is, in fact, Ethan Hawke. But judging from "his" review of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the jackanapes is doing some pitch-perfect work at the keyboard:

*****I'm STILL laughing and crying.
This wonderfully insightful book presented me with quite a conundrum: laughter, or tears? As an actor, I can tell you: there's no tougher emotion in the catalogue raisonne of the well-trained performer than mirth...or grief. And as the author of two hard-hitting novels I can back that up by saying it's tough to express sadness and hilarity verbally. But this wonderfully insightful book had me rolling from side to side with belly-laughs, then scrunched into a tiny ball, wracked with sobbery. I don't know how Foer does it. I am laughing now, as I write these words, but I can feel the tears backed up a couple of jobs in the old emotional queue. I'm buying extra copies of this book for all my friends, especially those who need help urging forth difficult emotions.

Tanenhaus, you might want to get on this one.

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