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A review by torts
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
3.0
It could drag at times, but in the end it was quite good. There was some ironic criticism of fiction in this book, and I chortled to myself over the fact that Eggers was employing irony.
I'm beginning to wonder if Eggers ever writes something and then lets it go; like, does he always go back and release a revised edition? Does every book he writes contain within it some sort of acknowledgment of its own shortcomings? Because I found it less charming in YSKOV! than in AHWOSG. It became something I had to tolerate, instead of something I could enjoy as part of a demonstration of his cleverness. (An aside about why I hate modern literature that's too moderny for its own good: it likes to announce how clever it is with its constant acknowledgments of what it is doing and what literature is about. Cool. Awesome. But you know what a more clever way to express this would be? AN ACTUAL STORY. Not that I find Eggers to be annoying like this. Yet.)
I'm beginning to wonder if Eggers ever writes something and then lets it go; like, does he always go back and release a revised edition? Does every book he writes contain within it some sort of acknowledgment of its own shortcomings? Because I found it less charming in YSKOV! than in AHWOSG. It became something I had to tolerate, instead of something I could enjoy as part of a demonstration of his cleverness. (An aside about why I hate modern literature that's too moderny for its own good: it likes to announce how clever it is with its constant acknowledgments of what it is doing and what literature is about. Cool. Awesome. But you know what a more clever way to express this would be? AN ACTUAL STORY. Not that I find Eggers to be annoying like this. Yet.)