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A review by marcuswithak
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
2.0
I remember borrowing this and a stack of other books from a friend. I did that a lot, the last couple of years before I went off to university. Had to have been 2008-2010, so nearly a decade after the book was written and now decade after that I'm writing this. So don't base anything off this review, I guess? Is anyone even still reading it?
I'll admit, I generation-gapped this author hard. I've got brothers who are a little younger than him and were into the same things, but I found him inaccessible. The world he described in his 20's was so alien that I couldn't identify with anything he said. Was it that he was describing a 1990's that I would never see, or was it I was too young and inexperienced to get it? I don't know. But I will tell you, if you try to get me to reread this, it's not happening.
I'll admit, I generation-gapped this author hard. I've got brothers who are a little younger than him and were into the same things, but I found him inaccessible. The world he described in his 20's was so alien that I couldn't identify with anything he said. Was it that he was describing a 1990's that I would never see, or was it I was too young and inexperienced to get it? I don't know. But I will tell you, if you try to get me to reread this, it's not happening.