noachoc 's review for:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

2.0

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I've been meaning to read this since I came across it in a high school book fair many many years ago, based entirely on the cleverness of its title. I guess, though, that I'm generally bored by self-centered post adolescent male narrators. There was a cleverness to the writing, amusing forays into meta fiction, but, on the whole, the narrator was the sort of person I would have walked away from at a cocktail party to go talk to someone else, so I didn't really enjoy being stuck with him for the duration of a novel.