Title: getting past the hype...
Product review: there is much to admire in dave egger's touching memoir. his honesty about some really embarassing situations is commendable (even if he admitted after publication that it wasn't 100% accurate-- chalk that up to artistic license). unfortunately, there is also much to forgive. the whole section about MTV's 'The Real World' was so unashamedly self-important and arrogant. he could've removed about 40 pages of this book if at the onset he had just stated "let it be understood that i am a cool dude." these moments of hipster self-aggrandizing almost made me stop reading, but ultmately i'm glad i didn't. he claims to not be happy with these sections, which i suppose is some vindication, but i still feel some resentment that i was forced to read it.
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