I recently read: "A staggering work of heartbreaking genius" by Dave Eggers. Overall, I give it a C.

On the positive side, it's written in an interesting way. It's officially a non-fiction book, a memoir, so it takes place over a specific period of time, but flashes back to other periods constantly, so it has a very stream-of-conciousness feel. That's good and bad; it's an interesting style, but it can be exasperating. It's almost 400 pages, and by about page 230, I wanted it to be over. There was a lot of stuff about the writer's magazine, his interview with MTV for the Real World San Francisco, and other completely uninteresting stuff. Also, thoughts don't segway at all, which I understand is probably what the author wanted, because it makes it seem like it was very much what he was thinking, but there aren't even paragraph breaks where new thoughts begin - sometimes it's just mid-sentence.

I generally consider a book good if I can't wait to finish it; I forced myself to finish this one. It was an interesting story, written in an interesting way, but it could've been half as long. That was the major flaw.

*Disclaimer: I wasn't prepared for the amount of bad language in this book. In fact, it turned me off. I think that could've been toned down as well. Some of the vocabulary is very intelligent, then there are pages where he uses the F word like 20 times! I think that might have been to make himself feel more like a real person who curses and gets upset, but it only made him unappealing to me.

Also, I must have dropped it off my nightstand at some point, and the plastic cover the library put on is now ripped. In addition to my returning it like 6 weeks late. So now I've got to duplicate the cover before the library police levy fines.