A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
2001
Weight: 12.8 oz
Method of Disposal: Leaving at Joe's in EAV
I read this book on a cross-country road trip from Georgia to California and back when I was in high school. I had no idea when I bought it that I would be driving down the same strips of road described in the novel at the exact moment I would be reading those parts. It felt magical to have accidentally stumbled on such serendipity.
As for the book as a whole, I thought it was okay. I was not blown away by it, and I never understood why it became such a sensation. Though, I must admit, I have never been a big Eggers fan. I don't hate him, and I have read a lot of his work searching for what other people see, but I always leave feeling neither here nor there about it.
This book has had a rough life. The cover is clinging on for dear life, but I think it has at least one more good read left in it.
2001
Weight: 12.8 oz
Method of Disposal: Leaving at Joe's in EAV
I read this book on a cross-country road trip from Georgia to California and back when I was in high school. I had no idea when I bought it that I would be driving down the same strips of road described in the novel at the exact moment I would be reading those parts. It felt magical to have accidentally stumbled on such serendipity.
As for the book as a whole, I thought it was okay. I was not blown away by it, and I never understood why it became such a sensation. Though, I must admit, I have never been a big Eggers fan. I don't hate him, and I have read a lot of his work searching for what other people see, but I always leave feeling neither here nor there about it.
This book has had a rough life. The cover is clinging on for dear life, but I think it has at least one more good read left in it.
