Title: pretentious
Product review: I read this book on an airplane and became angrier and angrier that I didn't have another reading option with me; by the end of this, I loathed Eggers as much as he obviously reveres himself. I read one critic review that stated something to the effect of "no criticism you could bring hasn't already been acknowledged in the book itself". Since when can you write a sophmoric, pretentious, self-obsessed book and get RAVE reviews because you acknowledged -- in a hip, sarcastic way -- those exact failures???? I'm sorry, but instead of aknowledging the books failings, maybe Eggers could have, you know, fixed them. Characters come and go with no introduction or ending; plot lines just vanish. Every sentence is written in that embarrassingly overthought, not-quite-wry, conspicuously delivered tone generally associated with 15 year old schoolgirls. Mostly, I think, Eggers enjoys talking about talking about himself.
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