19 - Your Fathers, where are they? And the Prophets, do they live forever?, by Dave Eggers
WHY I PICKED IT: Saw it in a bookstore, and it's Dave Eggers
ELAPSED TIME: 4 days
RATING: Good
This book is bizarre. Thomas kidnaps a NASA Astronaut to ask him some questions. As the answers leave holes, Thomas continues down a troublesome path in order to gain an understanding of the world around him... but goes deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole.
Not sure if the book is supposed to be funny, but some of the conversations in the book are really well defined. This book is written to be a play.
But this book is also not earth shattering. Eggers' writing is inconsistent with fantastic books: Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Zeitoun... and terrible ones: You Shall Know Our Velocity and A Hologram for the King. This book falls somewhere in the middle... high enough up that I'll keep reading his work.
This blog is a simple review of every book that I read... For all books I’ll tell you why I picked it, how long it took me to read it, and give it a rating (burn it, not good, meh, good, very good, and required reading). I ask (encourage?) all readers of my blog to post their thoughts of any of the books in my comments :). Thanks!
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