Is Dave Eggers good?

>>9891422

I read his memoir and I hated it. Really obnoxious style. I don't know why he was friends with DFW because the book was the epitome of "le cool irony" DFW hated.

>>9891427
Memoir is utter shit, agreed.

>>9891422
The premise was fine.
The execution was shit.
The protagonist was too unrealistic. (It really felt like a dude who forced himself to write a woman, purely based on tropes from thriller books.)
The pace was too fast.
The ending was too obvious and generally shit.
The moral was lazy.
Half the characters were so over the top, it was literally like watching an anime.
Tried too hard to be Orwellian and failed.

Honestly, had the setting been a couple decades in the future and the plot began in the middle of the companies pseudo-ebil plans, it would have fixed a bunch of issues.
Also cut half the sex scenes. They didn't add shit to the plot or character development.

>>9891443
i agree with everything here and i still think you're too generous

the book was one of the worst books i've read in recent memory

have not read anything else by eggers, and little desire to to after this shitshow

>>9891585
I genuinely think he may have written this with the sole intent of having people picking it up as a movie within two years.

A book I'd like to see as a trilogy would be The Swarm by Schätzing. Hollywood bought it and never produced shit. Because it isn't "cinematic" and "the environment is sooo 2008".