hikertrash
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Mar 11, 2005 16:42:58 GMT -4
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Jan 20, 2009 12:02:23 GMT -4
Post by hikertrash on Jan 20, 2009 12:02:23 GMT -4
Maybe this should go in the Unpopular Opinions thread, but I loved A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Dave Eggers has kind of gone off the rails with the McSweeney's thing, but I thought AHWOSG was brilliant.
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Nov 27, 2024 23:23:39 GMT -4
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Jan 20, 2009 15:24:43 GMT -4
Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2009 15:24:43 GMT -4
I loved it too, hikertrash. Some of the postmodern/metafictional stuff was a bit much for me, but the basic story of Dave and his brother was just lovely and so affecting. I went to see Eggers do a reading a few years ago and got him to sign my copy of AHWOSG. I had carried it with me on a backpacking trip through Europe and told him about it, so he signed it, "Glad to be with you on your journey, my friend."
A girl in my book club started bitching about Eggers when we suggested reading What is the What the other day and it made me mad. I think he's a genuinely talented writer who's also done a lot for the causes of literacy and the Lost Boys. Don't go dissin' my Dave!
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