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Summary: No, No, No This simply won't do
Review: Eggers, my friend, go to writing school. Your writing style is unpleasant and verbose. Not that writing programs can fix your immeasureable lack of talent, but they could at least show you what a good story looks like. And you should really try to read a book once a while that hasn't been written by one of your friends. Your atrocius writing leads me to believe that your reading habits extend only to the works of your fellow hipsters, in which case you should really try to remedy that with a thorough reading of the classics. Also, your titles are pretentious.
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Summary: Worth my time
Review: Reading this book made me want to be more generous than I am.
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Summary: Dang, I liked it!
Review: Here's another book I was expecting to hate (after reading the reviews), yet which I ended up enjoying a whole lot. Dave Eggers' writing won me over. Yes, parts were long-winded, could've used more editing, but overall I must say I enjoyed this book quite a lot. More than his first book even. I recommend this novel! Thanks also to the guy who suggested The Losers' Club by Richard Perez, another good Amazon quick pick.
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Summary: You Shall Know Our Pomposity
Review: Sorry folks, this book fails to meet my minimum entertainment standards, which are pretty darn low as it is. For some reason I didn't feel like watching David Eggers make love to himself for four hundred pages. Reading Eggers is almost like the experience of delving into a really self-indulgent Quentin Tarantino film, except that Tarantino has talent.
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Summary: Good but far from classic.
Review: I liked this book but it could have used a once over by an editor, eliminating some typos & cutting about 200 pages. Some of it was cute & chuckle worthy. The description of The Orchid Thief in the film Adaptation comes to mind (despite not having read that to be able to compare): sprawling New Yorker s**t.
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Summary: You Shall Know Our Velocity
Review: Not too sure about my thoughts on this book just yet. I absolutely loved the beginning, before the two left on their trip. After that, though, I kind of got a bit sick of it all, mainly because at times I felt the author was concentrating on describing the landscape and people's of the various countries than on the story - and the story certainly wasn't about how pretty/ugly Africa looks.I enjoyed the way he wrote the story, certain parts were just fantastic (the jumping between trees part springs to mind especially), and the way the narrator internalised most things really worked. I felt that maybe he played up the attack and Jack's death a little too much - In the end, their emphasis on the story wasn't as great as it could have been. I also thought that he never properly explained the reason why he wanted to go around giving money away to poor people. Sure, it explained but not in a way that I felt was explicit enough. I did get the feeling at times that Eggers was trying to be too subtle or too obscure with his character's reasons for their actions, but that could just be me not picking up on it enough. Who knows.
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Summary: Read it twice, at least!
Review: On a scale of one to ten... Entertainment value: 10
Profundity: 10
Relevance: 10
Page-turner-ness (yes, it's a word, because I just created it!): 10 To Mr. Eggers: you have written a remarkable, beautiful, subtle, meaningful book. I will do my part to install you in the canon by listing this book on my high school advanced placement reading list. Please don't sign any movie deals; this book deserves to remain in your capable and trustworthy hands!
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Summary: Top top.
Review: It's just great, and the last page just kills me. Eggers steps in where Douglas Coupland failed me.
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Summary: sacrement?
Review: so i'm not sure exactly what version of the book amazon is selling. this book started as yskov, but then became sacrement, and then was being sold through major resellers as yskov (again), so this may (or may not) have the added pages, editing, etc. anyway, the original version of this book was good, but not exceptional. the tension in the main relationship is nicely played out, the overall concept for the book is nifty, and the execution is pretty good, but it seemed wanting to me. eggers' previous book (a heartbreaking work of staggering genius) was, i thought, quite a bit better, and so at first i couldn't really recommend that friends get their own copy of this and to, instead, just borrow mine. then came the revision: sacrament. the second version of this book is excellent. i don't know how it reads if it is the first reading, but the addition by hand is fantastic. the new (about sixty i think) pages are everything and more that had i expected (based on ahwosg). the concept alone is top-notch, and the prose is remarkable. i don't know if australians will be particularly fond of the rather stereotypical view presented, but it really makes for great reading. the beach-blob, the car, the weather, everything contributes and satisfies. so, read and enjoy. if you're reading it for the first time, i highly recommend skipping hand's contribution until the end, as i think it makes everything significantly more enjoyable. in general, the prose is enjoyable, the story entertaining, and the honesty of the character portrayal is nothing short of pin-point-accurate. oh yeah, i almost forgot: rock and roll.
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Summary: the clumsy trusth
Review: i am japanese girl adn read YSKOV bookso nice!Nothing expensive but whole messy truth? is what felt like reading YSKOV. hihlight: once boys decided to give te money away to povertystricken African, travel to the Senegal by make numerous try find farm animals, so that use magictape money to the animal with note on graphpaper that say:
here i am,
rock you
like a hurricane lowlight:death,physical attaked and remembering all the bittersweet as if never happened dream so funny pain
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