A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

I love this book. Egger's imaginative, energetic style sucked me in, as usual, but the uniquely-detailed, deeply personal aspects of this memoir kept me absolutely glued to the page.

This is a great book. Dave Eggers is an imaginative and energetic writer and dives in with great enthusiasm to his story. I'm glad he does - it's a great story. The telling comes across as very honest, because Dave Eggers doesn't always appear to be a great guy.

He's blunt about his family tragedies, his relationship with his siblings, his successes and his failures. At times this bluntness is startling, at times, refreshing.

If you like memoirs, make sure you give this one a read! Eggers manages to tackle some difficult subjects with humor, and the writing is fantastic. Certain passages would be fantastic as audition monologues, as well.

This is a fantastic book. Pulitzer nominated Eggers mixes truth and exaggeration to a T in this memoir. His stories and funny and heartbreaking. His rambling of words and words of rambling is like reading butter that won't stop spreading. A good read. Eggers has done all sorts of great things and it's nice reading about his road to get there.