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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
challenging
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More like A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Self-Centeredness!! This was SUCH a painful read that I could not get past the 250th page! The writing could only be described as a horrendous stream of meta-consciousness; the author is completely convinced of the fact that his life is absolutely fascinating to others... yeah, it's not.
If you are all interested in reading a book about losing members of one's family, growing up in the Midwest or the relationship between brothers, read Shari Goldhagen's Family and Other Accidents -- it does a beautiful job of handling all of these issues through realistically flawed, yet likeable characters.
If you are all interested in reading a book about losing members of one's family, growing up in the Midwest or the relationship between brothers, read Shari Goldhagen's Family and Other Accidents -- it does a beautiful job of handling all of these issues through realistically flawed, yet likeable characters.
Don't read this book--listen to the audiobook instead. Thank me later.
adventurous
dark
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hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
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challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
I only had to read two short extracts of this book for University, however what I did read I throughly enjoyed. I shall sit down and give this book the proper read it deserves. Egger's endearing and comedic voice is superb, you like him from the off and (despite his warnings) this makes you want to read on and find out what he's been through.
Everything that Dave Eggers seems to be a work of mad, manic genius (in the best way possible). More than lives up to its title.
I love McSweeney‘s so I was really looking forward to this, but found 400 pages of his style of prose was just plodding and painful.
The first 100 pages may have persuaded me he was a genius, but the rest showed he’s an egomaniac who likes to see himself talk.
Technically I started this book back in February but kept putting it aside for something better.
The first 100 pages may have persuaded me he was a genius, but the rest showed he’s an egomaniac who likes to see himself talk.
Technically I started this book back in February but kept putting it aside for something better.
One of those books that explicitly defined the time in which it was published. A postmodern memoir that is all of the things you never thought a memoir could be. Genuinely sad, genuinely funny, too. A great book.
funny
reflective
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