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dungkake in boxobook

Dave Eggers anyone?

Mar 31, 2004 18:18

I recently read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and I fell in love with Dave Eggers' writing. The story is so compelling and gripping. Has anyone else read it?

Since I loved that so much I've been reading his You Shall Know Our Velocity as a followup because as everyone here knows once you get hooked on an author, you just want more ( Read more... )

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Reading material jchess April 24 2004, 23:44:57 UTC

Hello, howdy-ho, hola. I am not certain how it was I came here, but here I am. I saw the comments about Dave Eggers, and thought I should shove in and pipe up and mention his selection in the wonderful collection "McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales". As that slightly known scribe Stephen King would say: I did you a solid.

Word.

My two cents.

Jim Hess
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jchess/

Re: Reading material dungkake April 25 2004, 15:15:03 UTC

Jim,

Thanks for the two cents. I will be applying them toward my late fine at the library in order to check out said McSweeney's book.

-Natalie

Re: Reading material jchess April 25 2004, 21:22:08 UTC

As long as I did my good deed for the day.

Until next time,

Jim Hess

freud_chicken April 25 2004, 19:38:44 UTC

A fan of eggers would also enjoy Best American Non-required Reading 2002 and 2003. Eggers edited both works.

dungkake April 25 2004, 19:52:07 UTC

Thanks!

I actually just took the 2003 version out of the library and was pleased to see that Lynda Barry was featured.

actually... movealong_ntsh October 3 2004, 22:36:59 UTC

i was just havng a nose at this community and thinking that *you shall know..* would be the book i'd choose to write about too, tho more for the cover art (or, rather, lack thereof...)

i just thought that was so clever, the way that he avoided the usual *this is the front cover, this is the publishers notes, now this is the beginning of the story* layout one normally finds. (i should say, in case this was only on the UK version, that the front cover basically contains only the beginning of the story, continuing onto the inside front cover and so on... there is no *cover art* to speak of, just the story itself)

apparently, he's a graphic designer too.