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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
I liked this book when I first read it in college, now reading in my 30s I find the narrator insufferably neurotic.
I'd heard wonderful things about this book, but just could not get in to it. Sad.
There were moments that I really connected with the book and the author. And then there were times where I skipped through entire pages because of the author's ramblings.
I didn't enjoy the stream of consciousness bits but I appreciated the stories and recounted interaction between him and his younger brother.
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
I understood the overall idea of the book, and I really enjoyed the emotional and funny moments throughout. However, the long monologues didn’t work for me—they kind of dragged the experience down. I get that they’re meant to help you relate or convey the feeling of anxiety during certain phases, but for some reason, they just didn’t sit right with me, maybe because of how I read them. That aside, I genuinely liked the book, especially because the story felt open-ended—it didn’t have a definitive "END" to anything, and I enjoy that kind of narrative.
I am Generation X so I really enjoyed this one. I've also lived in SF so it was nice reading about my favorite city.
The end was just... wow. Definitely worth reading,
The end was just... wow. Definitely worth reading,
A heartbreaking story in need of a filter. I can appreciate random tangenital stream-of-concious thought; my brain works that way. Eggers commentary in the copyright, story in the stream works to a degree but I found it just too overwhelming.
I stopped reading this book at 29% because I couldn't stand reading any more about how proud this guy was about his terrible parenting and example setting.