![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a funny line, of course-a rather massive wink by the author-not only because it's a clever stroke of literary subversion (after all, what other authors can you name who would dare to advise readers to skip portions of their books? Rick Moody? David Foster Wallace?), but also because it's so painfully true. Actually, many of you might want to skip much of the middle, namely pages 239-351, which concern the lives of people in their early twenties, and whose lives are very difficult to make interesting, even when they seem interesting to those living them at the time.-Dave EggersĬhances are you are one of the many who inhaled Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius upon its release two years ago, which means the above quote-taken from the first page, under the header "RULES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ENJOYMENT OF THIS BOOK"-is undoubtedly very familiar to you. ![]()
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