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danikass 's review for:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
Yikes, just yikes. I think we need to stop letting mediocre, literary white boys write self-aggrandizing memoirs. I just have a hard time looking past someone threatening to call immigration on teenagers without any sense of remorse, or who, as an adult, romanticizes staring down the shirts of teenage girls, or who, entirely unprompted, calls the "existence of fat kids" "disgusting." The r word is used quite a lot, and there's a fixation on race that's extremely yikesworthy.
Maybe I could look past all that, say this was twenty years ago and the world didn't know better, maybe, but then the book itself is just bad. It's all so self indulgent, self reflective only when convenient, and yeah, I guess it's funny, but I need more than that. The constant ego mixed with Eggers' uselessness/mediocrity just made it unbearable.
But it was an easy read? And the writing was good, even if what he had to say was boring.
Maybe I could look past all that, say this was twenty years ago and the world didn't know better, maybe, but then the book itself is just bad. It's all so self indulgent, self reflective only when convenient, and yeah, I guess it's funny, but I need more than that. The constant ego mixed with Eggers' uselessness/mediocrity just made it unbearable.
But it was an easy read? And the writing was good, even if what he had to say was boring.