Title: Turns you off at the first page
Product review: That oh so hip and cool disclaimer at the beginning sets the tone for this underachieving, overhyped, ego-fest of a novel. Just because Eggers is aware of his novel's flaws doesn't make them any less egregious. Eggers, by taking this ironic approach to his own work, shows that he is a coward, too afraid to take real criticism and much too lazy to edit. I guess in Eggers' world, talent is measured in terms of literary verbosity, in which case Eggers is number one. The man couldn't write a true simple sentence if his life depended on it.
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