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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
some great quotes, just...can't be bothered to actually finish it
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
slow-paced
WHAT A VOICE! Eggars is a fantastic writer, with a style all his own. This story captures the zeitgeist of my generation the way Kerouac captured his in [b:On the Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E8H3D1JSL._SL75_.jpg|3355573], and in fact many points in this book are strongly reminiscent of Kerouac's writing.
Great read, keeps you entertained from start to finish. Can't say enough good things about this book!
Great read, keeps you entertained from start to finish. Can't say enough good things about this book!
I love memoirs. I love humor. I thought this might be a good book but it was not my thing at all. Couldn’t even finish reading it. Next.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
The last 100 pages of this book were strong enough to make up for any dragging moments in the middle. A startlingly candid, funny, and sometimes frustrating as hell sort-of-memoir. This is a good book.
Very intense writing style, like getting tossed around in a roller coaster that lasts far longer than is entertaining. Truly self-aggrandizing. But also a voice of a generation, relatable, raw.
I only read this out of curiousity. Now I know, but I'm curious to read a taste of his more recent work to see how he's matured.
I wouldn't consider this a must-read book by any means, but I don't feel the scorn for it that some others do. The audiobook was the way to go. A lot of the lines did land with me because of the narrator's excellent delivery.
I wouldn't consider this a must-read book by any means, but I don't feel the scorn for it that some others do. The audiobook was the way to go. A lot of the lines did land with me because of the narrator's excellent delivery.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
The cool thing is to not like Dave Eggers, right? If you didn’t like this book, I can almost guarantee it’s because you don’t understand satirical writing. I read this book for the first time in high school, I was drawn in by the title... For someone to be so pompous, to make such a claim, the book couldn’t possibly be a flop, right? What kept me was the story... Eggers makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time. He marries comedy and tragedy in a way that is essential to survival... He does really well at conveying the uncertain nature of the situation they were thrust into. Yes, the title is a little self-adulating, but he does acknowledge in the preface that that was in honor of his father. Rereading it seven years later... While the references are dated, the experiences aren’t. 17 and reading this I thought Eggers was all that he said he was cracked up to be... 24, I see a typical twenty-something who thinks that their life is the most interesting thing that has ever happened. But... its more than that. The author is aware of his own ego, mocks it, even mocks his generation for the ego they share... If you finish this book thinking that the author is full of shit, you missed the point. The point is his half-formed, self-conscious metaphor of the lattice... The point is not for you to see what a cool dude Dave Eggers is, it’s for him to get this off of his chest.
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced