Title: Eggers dot bomb--publishing industry pyramid scheme.
Product review: This book is basically hyped trash.There's no plot, there's no unity of time, place, and action, the characters are cardboard, even though they're real, as opposed to Hamlet, where the characters are deep and profound, even though they're fictional.They set Eggers up as the ultimate literary "it" boy, even though he's the ultimate company man, out-hyping his publisher's hype.The publishing industry needed someone to hype, and it ended upbeing somebody who wanted it more than anyone else. Eggers lacks all traits of a classic artist, and he relies on his appetite for postmodern fame.This book's an embarrassment, and it's also a sign of the times--there's a good recent article in the Atlantic Monthly about the decline of literature, and the rise of hype. I bought the paperback version, and it's worth less than most dot com stock options.
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