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A review by swhuber
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
5.0
When describing "You Shall Know Our Velocity" I often state "It's like Holden Caulfield went On the Road." It has the same intensely necessary characterization, the same description and the same morose feeling for much of the book.
I like to say YSKOV is one of my favorite books even though most of the book annoys my (perhaps because I hate both Catcher in the Rye and Jack Kerouac). Even so, it is one of my favorite books because of a passage in the last 30 pages of the book about the jumping people who took life's sorrows into their mouths and souls in order to fly. They sucked in the air as a sort of helium to make themselves lighter.
It is that passage alone that makes me love this book.
I like to say YSKOV is one of my favorite books even though most of the book annoys my (perhaps because I hate both Catcher in the Rye and Jack Kerouac). Even so, it is one of my favorite books because of a passage in the last 30 pages of the book about the jumping people who took life's sorrows into their mouths and souls in order to fly. They sucked in the air as a sort of helium to make themselves lighter.
It is that passage alone that makes me love this book.