Pros: Good comic style, some "heartbreaking" plot points, It's his LIFE Cons: Too obsessed with himself (like all of us are), soliloquys in 2nd half get too distracting, go too far...his catharsis becomes our burden
I really wanted to like this book. I've read a lot of rave reviews on it, including the others here at Epinions, and I've had some friends read it who enjoyed it. So I checked it out at the library, and started reading it at about 5:00 AM on a morning...
Pros: A real tour-de-force Cons: Three books haphazardly combined into one
When I saw the Michiko Kakutani quote on the cover of Dave Eggers' first novel praising it as "a virtuosic piece of writing" this and a "manic-depressive stew of a book" that, I knew it had to be worth picking up. I'm an avid reader of the ...
Pros: There really is a good book in there somewhere. Cons: You won't be able to find it without an electron microscope.
Last summer, when I was on bedrest during my final pregnancy, three of my girlfriends got together and sent me a care package of books, magazines, and other fun things. One of the books, to my delight, was Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of ...
Pros: Beautifully written and intelligently humorous. Cons: Some of the literary devices aren't entirely effective.
When I initially posted this review in February, in was located in the "Mystery and Detective" section of the book category. This has since been corrected.
First, a clarification: Regardless of what the staff at Epinions...
Pros: Enormously endearing and compelling narrative Cons: Not a manual for mourning
Released in paperback February 2001.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the topsoil of a tragedy, the first layers of earth pushed aside in a painful personal excavation, where the treasure seems to remain deeply...
Pros: brilliantly written story filled with heartbreaking honesty and an amazing amount of humor Cons: parts are difficult to follow, but, per the authors instructions, you can skip over them
One day, while shopping at BJs I saw A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on A True Story by Dave Eggers. Wow - what a title! I had never heard of it, but with a title like that it is either pure genius or pure trash. Open it up –...
Pros: A brilliant, exciting book; a surprise from someone I thought I had pegged. Cons: Cutesy literary devices sometimes become aggravating, and personally I am very jealous.
In the spirit of Dave's book, let me say straight up front that I am shamelessly trading on my personal acquaintance with the author to do two things: 1) draw some more attention to this review, and 2) make me look cooler by association. More likely, I...
Pros: Hilarious, honest, self-mocking, Cons: First page lists cons in detail.
The cover is irresistible. The red theatrical curtain rising (or perhaps falling) on a Technicolor sunset. The overblown title that must be self-referentially self-deprecating, or maybe not. And finally, irrelevantly, the little words, "Based on a...
Pros: Great humor, excellent writing and engaging stories Cons: A bit too cheeky at times for its own good
The author of this epinion would like to make several points:
a)That he is copying the style of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius unabashedly.
b)That in doing so, he is only reinforcing the contrast between his sub-par...
Pros: Surreal. Intense. Pathos ridden. Brilliant throughout. Cons: Much too short - take your time and enjoy getting to know Eggers and family
Pre-Read Initial Impression
I must admit that a year before I had the pleasure of discovering Eggers for myself I noticed Staggering Genius' title in the New York Times Top 10 Best Sellers list and laughed at the Author's apparent audacity....
Pros: It has a way of framing giddy, mundane moments exhilaratingly. It has picturesque prose, if I may be allowed a bit of alliteration. Cons: None. Nada. Zilch. Z-z-z-z-eee-r-r-r-r-O!
Yowzers! I went to use the facilites (watercloset, john, head, lavatory), the other morn, selected a stall, put up those warning tapes that vice use at the site of violent crimes, erected sawhorses, and, for good measure, put up a road flare, all to...
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