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bridgey74 's review for:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
It was just ok; but I was surprised. When I read the intro, I thought "I'm gonna love this book"! I didn't. But you can't love them all. So many reviews praised the "self-consciousness" of the book as an asset in the telling. The stream-of-consciousness writing style eventually made it hard for me to care about the narrator or his tale. At one point, later in the book, Dave is picking up his confused, wayward friend John, again, and John rips him a new one about his fuck-ups NOT becoming another storyline for him (Dave) and that other people's tragedies or life-events become his fodder (I'm paraphrasing). I agreed with John and felt like he was articulating my feelings about the whole book; the one scene that rang true for me. Dave's neurosis gets kind of boring and his paranoia...well who cares. I'm glad I read it, but I'll be passing this one on to another reader.