I'm actually talking more about his second book (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), Foer is a talented writer and now that I think back the first book does indeed have some good moments. I think though that Foer is a bit too self-conscious and wears his influences like badges of honor as opposed to absorbing them…

I voted for both of those as well! That means we have enormous literary penises.

Been meaning to read it

Many people say it is "too long" I say they need to learn how to read.

I'd be interested in this as a selection.

There is absolutely nothing original or interesting about that. The problem with Foer is not that he isn't talented (he is) or that he cannot write (he can) it is that he writes, as Faulkner put it "not of the heart, but of the glands." That is to say, without an ounce of un-ironic, un-precocious human feeling

Well i own it, might as well read it…

Good call

My suggestion is something by a writer who can have one non-ironic emotion, one spec of feeling, one tiny second of originality.

Someone Suggested Little, Big
And I concur

Here is the deal with McCarthy: his stylized "muscular prose" sometimes sucks, a lot. In terms of pacing especially.