One summer, when I was on bedrest during my third pregnancy, three of my girlfriends got together and sent me a care package of books, magazines, and other fun things. One of the books, to my delight, was Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a 2001 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, which I...
Started out great. Interesting style, dark, paranoid and disturbing at times, funny and thought provoking at other times. Unfortunately, the book just kept on going. And going. The story lost all interest and became a bit "out there", the characters got annoying, the rants became more and more over ...
how to describe reading this? he tells this pretty heartbreaking story (not a surprise if you believed the title) in a way that really belies the emotion behind it. to me, that made it a bit of a weird read, to see how intentionally he avoided the underlying stuff, while talking about everything e...
Hey, just realized I never wrote a review for this .... hrrrmm. I was on vacation when i read it and didn't have a computer so i was using my sister's and she didn't want me to so i didn't have any time to do a review and never got around to it! So that was completely irrelevant.Anyway, great book...
On order for June book club read. I've been curious to read this one. It seems to be one that people either love or hate. I wonder which camp I'll fall into?5/13 I can't seem to finish reading anything lately. I hate to add another "currently reading" book right now, but I'd better get started on th...
i had seen dave eggers on dinner for five before i read this book and i liked him: he seemed really smart and sincere about the charity work he was doing. my friends really liked his first book, this book, and i decided to read it even after i had read his story in the mcsweeney anthology mammoth ta...
Wow, is this polarizing or what? lol. Well, he warns you right from the beginning how full of shit he is (except with fancier vocabulary) so I don't really see the reason for the complaints. With that said, though, I can understand why someone wouldn't like the book.Did I think it was all beautiful ...
Quite an exhausting read! It's the story of a twenty something budding writer who raises his much younger brother when both parents die in quick succession. He juggles the responsibilities of parenthood with the irresponsibilities of youth, balances grief with the desire for fun as he and 'Topher gr...
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