Praise Dave Eggers!For who would have ever foretold that the novelist who became famous with a self-hagiography of a book with an impossible title ready to be mangled ("A staggering work of heartbreaking genius" no wait: was it "A heartbreaking work of staggering genius"?) could have become one of t...
Heartbreaking account of compassionate, caring, innocent people treated as criminals for inexplicable reasons. It is up to the reader to contemplate the motives of the powerful.
This excellent book recognizes that our "issues" in the U.S are not easily separated. Eggers uses the destruction of New Orleans with the Islam-phobia of the post 9/11 U.S. to show us how the two intersect. This is a work of non-fiction, but Eggers uses a dramatic storyline to push the story forward...
When I first heard of the book called Zeitoun, and looked it up, I thought it was a story about one man's survival during the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. It takes place largely in New Orleans, during 2005, when Hurricane Katrina slammed the south. However, this book is so much more than a story of...
Read between 11.30 pm and 4.45 a.m. last night. One big gulp of stinky, corrupt water and the lives that were washed away in it -- and continue to be devastated by injustices codified and rationalized by "The War On Terror" -- the U.S.'s own citizens murdered by ineptitude, bureacracy and a racist,...
Fast read but it felt like a good long investigative journalism article expanded to fill a book. He pumped the injustice of it all too much. It was too drawn out. “She was so worried. The next hour she was even more worried. Then she thought she’d explode.” (A digested read). Ok ok I get it. Move on...
Okay. I herewith open my piehole for the crow to be inserted. I have said nasty, judgmental things about Eggers's writings, and I meant each and every one of them. I still do.But this book is excellent, and this book is Eggers's, so it is obvious that the old adage about a stopped clock being right ...
Aaaaaaaarghhh!! I just can't take Dave Eggers. He has authorial ADD. Stay focused already, dude! Beats me why he's considered such a great writer. Oh well, no accounting for individual tastes, I guess.
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