Jonathan's review
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (The Best American Series (TM))
by Dave Eggers
Jonathan's review
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (The Best American Series (TM)) by Dave Eggers
Jonathan's review
rating:
I stumbled upon these collections a few years ago, and loved them. They are edit by Dave Eggers - not my favorite author - and constit of short storiees, magazine articles, blog entries, and a myriad of other not so accesable sources collected by high school students at 826 Valencia (If you knwo Eggers, you know what this is). I normally love almost everything in them, and savour the variety, but ths year - 2006 - left me very dissapointed. It was mostly political essays, and mostly about Iraq. I understand that this is an important topic, but it was way too much for me. I get enough of this in the regular media, and don't want my "nonrequired" reading to hit me over the head with it either. There was one facinating essay entitled "Letting Go of God" by Julia Sweeny which I found facinating, otehr than that - bluck. I do reccomend any of the previous years, though - I believe if began in 2004. Those were fresh and well rounded, before Eggers ego and personal politic...more
