Caris's review
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
Caris's review
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Caris's review
rating:
bookshelves:
iheart,
sparklingglimpsesatcommongrace-
recommended for: the stronghearted, the proud, the profound and the profoundly damaged
Alrighty. I provide an outline to what I learned from this book:
1. Hooked from the start, I plowed through the first eleventy-whatever chapters under the fluorescents at Barnes and Noble and whilst crossing the autumnal Smoky Mountains in the backseat of roommates' cars. I was satisfied. I was amazed, heartbroken, staggered...Eggered!
2. I continued my literary pillage of Egger's twenties while couchridden with a cold. I dreamed of my Grandmother Wilma that night. Cancer killed her, and Eggers let me realize that I don't think enough about it. Eggers demands we look our killers, literal and figurative, in the face...but starts to lose his point amid the blah blah blah about Might. Man, how can he still not embrace the death of that magazine?!? He relies to much on our common experience that our dearest brainchildren are continuously in danger from without. By the end, it seems he's all but forgotten that he was murdering Might from the beginning! (e.g. using his fervor to a...more
1. Hooked from the start, I plowed through the first eleventy-whatever chapters under the fluorescents at Barnes and Noble and whilst crossing the autumnal Smoky Mountains in the backseat of roommates' cars. I was satisfied. I was amazed, heartbroken, staggered...Eggered!
2. I continued my literary pillage of Egger's twenties while couchridden with a cold. I dreamed of my Grandmother Wilma that night. Cancer killed her, and Eggers let me realize that I don't think enough about it. Eggers demands we look our killers, literal and figurative, in the face...but starts to lose his point amid the blah blah blah about Might. Man, how can he still not embrace the death of that magazine?!? He relies to much on our common experience that our dearest brainchildren are continuously in danger from without. By the end, it seems he's all but forgotten that he was murdering Might from the beginning! (e.g. using his fervor to a...more
