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A review by carweneve
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
1.0
Ugh.
I appreciate that the author was going for a highly self-conscious narrative, playing off the modern obsession with knowing everything (even tying in to Real World) etc etc but my problem was that it didn't seem like a device. It seemed like he actually wanted people to know all this and it just came across as angry, self-pitying and self-aggrandising.
Blah blah blah, my parents died, oh woe is me, blah blah, I'm such a cool 'parent' blah blah blah, oh my god, I need to be more of a parent-parent, blah, but oh no we're too cool for that blah blah.
A friend has apparently read this twice and that he felt it was blaaaah the first time too. I'm not wasting any of my life reading it again to see if it's *actually* a work of genius.
I appreciate that the author was going for a highly self-conscious narrative, playing off the modern obsession with knowing everything (even tying in to Real World) etc etc but my problem was that it didn't seem like a device. It seemed like he actually wanted people to know all this and it just came across as angry, self-pitying and self-aggrandising.
Blah blah blah, my parents died, oh woe is me, blah blah, I'm such a cool 'parent' blah blah blah, oh my god, I need to be more of a parent-parent, blah, but oh no we're too cool for that blah blah.
A friend has apparently read this twice and that he felt it was blaaaah the first time too. I'm not wasting any of my life reading it again to see if it's *actually* a work of genius.