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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
I'm not sure when I read this. I remember wanting to hate it, because it was so super-hyped. But I ended up just loving it. Definitely far from perfect. And yeah, Eggers can be a bit much to take at times. But it felt real and it felt honest. Besides, I am just about exactly his age and so I loved all of the cultural references, such as trying to get on the cast of the first season of "The Real World" and subsequently despising Puck. Yeah, pretty annoying when I talk about it.
I remember later reading that his sister(s?) dispute his take on the events and his close relationship with Topher. Could be. But I really bought the story of their relationship and thought was the strongest part of the book.
I also love what Eggers has done since, such as the work he does with kids and McSweeny's. Maybe that is coloring my view of the book.
I remember later reading that his sister(s?) dispute his take on the events and his close relationship with Topher. Could be. But I really bought the story of their relationship and thought was the strongest part of the book.
I also love what Eggers has done since, such as the work he does with kids and McSweeny's. Maybe that is coloring my view of the book.
It was interesting...but I am not a fan of "stream of though" story lines.
This book was so good that I have had a hard time resisting reading every Dave Eggers book that hits the shelves. The writing really puts you inside his creative mind, and allows you to fully experience the world through his eyes. Amazingly, its a fitting title.
i agree with other readers, who said that the first section of the book was the most well-written and had an actual point to it. the rest of the book is so scattered and irritating to read, that i didn't want to finish it, but i thought just maybe it would turn around and be great. not so much.
Very enjoyably. Witty. Doesn't require you to think too much. Everything one could want in a book.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief
Curious how old all these reviewers are.
It was kind of about nothing and also everything, I finished it at 23 and mostly just felt like I was reading the scattered brain of another person my age. Liked reading the run on thoughts stories processing whatever as they were, articulated in a half baked an unfinished way, like it was a race to write them down before they were forgotten.
It was kind of about nothing and also everything, I finished it at 23 and mostly just felt like I was reading the scattered brain of another person my age. Liked reading the run on thoughts stories processing whatever as they were, articulated in a half baked an unfinished way, like it was a race to write them down before they were forgotten.
Written with a perfectly self-aware sense of humor that is so midwestern. Definitely isn’t for everyone. It was for me tho…probably new favorite book of all time
Once I got past the enormously long sentences, this book is a charmer. The protagonist (Dave Eggers), age 22, loses both of his parents suddenly to cancer, and becomes the guardian of his 7 year old brother. He outlines their menu (lots of Ore-Ida fries), diagrams the way to maximize the distance you can slide on hardwoods in your socks (seriously), and they have food fights in the house. It's sweet but not too sweet, and whole, and handles death in a real way, the way books never handle it, the way I think when someone around me dies, the thoughts I would never say out loud. The book goes on over the course of a few years, as Dave and his brother figure out their lives.