How's this?

Sparked my interest in what's to come in 21st century lit.
Eggers is okay by me. His last 4 or 5 don't interest me tho.

I enjoyed it. It's nice to me because it's a real work of fiction, you know, it's relevant. There's no magical realism or surrealism or anything like that, it's just a raw story of this guy's life. I think it's heartening in a time when real dreams and hopes can get crushed by excess cynicism and stuff like that.

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>>8466685
>work of fiction, you know, it's relevant

>>8465527
Better.

>>8466685
It's a memoir.

I enjoyed it. A lot of people here will reflexively shit on it. I read the novel he wrote afterward about the kids who go to Africa or something, and I didn't like it neary as much as I liked this. Well written, funny, beginning and end are moving.

i liked it a lot as well. very well written and entertaining and sad. i like how he breaks the fourth wall and stuff in it too. i have no interest in his fiction though

Thanks, lads. I'm even more interested now.

After reading this thread, I decided to impulse buy this book.

Better be good you bastards.

I hated it when I read it in high school, I also read The Circle recently and it was absolute garbage so I probably wasn't wrong about this one.

>>8465527
Contrary to everyone else in this thread, I was really let down my this book. I thought there'd be more drama. Instead I got a lot of naval gazing and pointless episodes. Without the self-awareness this would be the most uneventful, boring book ever written. And the self-awareness even, for me, got old fast. It felt weirdly outdated, despite being held up as one of the most sophisticated examples of post-postmodernism.

>>8468366
>naval gazing

>>8468371
lol woops