krobart 's review for:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

1.0

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I found the first 100 pages or so about Eggers' parents’ deaths and his subsequent struggles affecting and absorbing. However, this is one of the few books that I just couldn’t finish. I found it so juvenile and smug that it was absolutely grating, but that’s not why I stopped. When Eggers abandons his straight narrative, he begins musing, and his prose devolves into unbelievably long, rambling paragraphs. His approach has been deemed “inventive” and even “the memoir as metafiction." I was actually only 30 pages from the end of the book when he started another of his lengthy asides, and I just couldn’t take it anymore. I gave up.

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http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/tag/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius/