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13 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

I beg, implore, on hands-and-knees for you to read this book

Date of Review:  Oct 26, 2000
Review: 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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  5.0

by: willbradbury
Recommended to buy: Yes

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It has a way of framing giddy, mundane...
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None. Nada. Zilch...
 
40 out of 40 people found this review helpful.

A Long-winded, Rambling Epinion About a Really Great Book

Date of Review:  Mar 11, 2001
The Bottom Line: Eggers' story is a heartbreaking work of genius. While Eggers' style may not appeal to everyone, his book shares his story with great humor and brutal honesty.
Review: 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 ?...
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  4.0

by: theworm
Recommended to buy: Yes

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brilliantly written story filled with...
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parts are difficult to follow, but, per...
 
13 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

Pure of Heart; Work of Art

Date of Review:  Apr 3, 2000
Review: Ever had one of those days? How about one of those lifetimes? Dave Eggers has!

You know when you meet a friend for coffee and they tell you all sorts of things you never knew about them and you become completely lost in the conversation...
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  5.0

by: GiantsFan
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Work of genius, hard to put down
Cons
none
 
44 out of 44 people found this review helpful.

A snarky tale of a man, his brother and death

Date of Review:  Apr 13, 2000
Review: 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 writing...
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  4.0

by: mgreber
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Great humor, excellent writing and...
Cons
A bit too cheeky at times for its own...
 
9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

Great Book, Lame ending!

Date of Review:  Jan 2, 2001
Review: I read this book on the recommendation of both my wife and a group of her friends who had been praising it all this past year. I finally got around to it when I got shelved with the flu over the New Years weekend.

This book was hilarious...
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  4.0

by: phenzen
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Great dialogue
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Run on dialogue
 
50 out of 50 people found this review helpful.

A Powerful and Poignant Defense Against Grief

Date of Review:  Jan 6, 2001
The Bottom Line: This is an astonishingly intimate memoir of Eggers, orphaned in young adulthood and named guardian of his younger brother. I laughed, I cried, I thought, I sighed.
Review: 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 buried.
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  4.0

by: prettyinpink
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Enormously endearing and compelling...
Cons
Not a manual for mourning
 
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

A Prelude to Fame

Date of Review:  Apr 18, 2000
Review: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is the autobiography of its author, Dave Eggers, who is also the founder and editor of McSweeneys, a quarterly magazine. The book chronicles the years following the near-simultaneous, yet unrelated, deaths...
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  4.0

by: LeopoldBloom32
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
well-written, engrossing
Cons
disturbing undercurrents
 
49 out of 49 people found this review helpful.

Mo' meta blues

Date of Review:  Feb 10, 2000
Review: After the Eggers bookreading in the City, I overheard one hipster savant say to another: "He even uses the same font as David Foster Wallace."

He was wrong, of course. Flip through "Infinite Jest" and look at the serifs on the G's. Compare...
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  5.0

by: Mr_Scrooby
Recommended to buy: Yes

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I laughed! I cried! I stayed up until 4...
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Reminded me that I, myself, am not that...
 
12 out of 12 people found this review helpful.

Genius Notwithstanding....

Date of Review:  Jun 23, 2000
Review: Yes. I like this book. Yes. This is going to be ANOTHER review of this trendy little book that declares it phenomenal.

Don't blame me. It's not my fault. I couldn't help it.

What were my chances, really, given the style of this...
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  5.0

by: bansidhe
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Well-written, very modern way of...
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Probably only hurt by the amount of...
 
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

A Blockbuster Paperback Deal of Immense Proportions

Date of Review:  May 10, 2000
Review: New York writers cringed with fear and envy when they learned that Dave Eggers had signed a 1.4 million dollar deal for the paperback rights to "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." Granted, Eggers will see only a fraction of the amount after...
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  5.0

by: Ruland
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Staplers, lucid dreaming
Cons
No nudity, too much MTV, cole slaw
 

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