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tonymp 's review for:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
It's been a while since I've bothered to review a book. I just wanted to take the time to give my opinion on this one because: If you are a Gen-xer like me and you haven't read this, you need to read it! This book is angry. This book is fresh. I could not put it down. I cried when I got to the end. I finished it yesterday and I haven't stopped thinking about today. It's heartbreaking, yes, but it is also liberating. My favorite part: the author insists that when he shares things about his very intimate life he is not giving us anything! For me this has always been true. I don't think sharing secrets is a big deal. I'm not giving you a damn thing of value if I tell you something previously unknown about me. This kind of kills any transactional meaning in the pact between narrator and reader. The pact is reduced to: narrator tells things reader reads the things told.