Adam's review
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
Saunders is a writer with a fantastic sense of tone, and his language is so oddly and enjoyably pitched that, if he were a novelist rather than a satirist, I'd called him a "masterful prose stylist". I bought this collection after reading "Ask the Optimist!", in which he uses those two qualities to wonderful ends, as he does in many of the pieces in this collection. Others, not so much. Saunders writes a travelogue of Dubai: awesome. Saunders writes about visiting England in the voice of an "ignorant American" who doesn't know anything about England: YAWN. Saunders writes about staying up all night to see whether a Nepalese boy who's supposedly been fasting for seven months straight is sneaking food in the middle of the night: awesome. Saunders writes a ... well, you get the idea.
Summary: I loved loved loved a third of the essays in this collection, ...more
Summary: I loved loved loved a third of the essays in this collection, ...more
