Title: When Style Rules Substance
Product review: Dave Eggers is one emotionally guarded guy. Why all the mind-numbing literary acrobatics ? Is he just trying to protect whatever his emotional truth might be ? Does he just want to make sure we all know how truly unique he is -- not at all like the rest of us who might have had a more mundane response to the losses and upheaval he experienced ? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Mr. Eggers is unable to transcend the emotional shallowness that seems to plague his generation. But it does surprise me that his publisher would choose a writer less able (or maybe just less willing) to communicate honestly. There is no wisdom or revelation in this book -- just one silly manuever after another to obfuscate some very real and painful truths.
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