A Dave Eggers book on sale

So I just noticed that Dave Eggers’s memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is on sale for $1.99.

I remember reading it some time around 2001 or 2002.  A friend of mine had finished it and told me, “When I read it, I wished I’d written it.”  As would-be authors, it was as fine a recommendation as I could get and I gave it a shot.

It was a pretty wonderful book.  Barely out of his teens, Eggers lost both of his parents within six months of one another, and he took over care of his eight-year-old brother.  Funny yet sad, painful, sometimes cheesy, but always honest … I found it intriguing and beautiful.

I was surprised, at first, to see it’s only averaging 3.5 of 5 stars on Amazon … just another reminder that those numbers really, frequently mean nothing.  To each their own, as they say, because it is what it is.

Take a peek at the description, and give it a try.  But only if you want to.

Catchya Later. – Bart