Whatcha' Readin'?
I just got done reading a wonderful book by Dave Eggers called What is the What.Eggers is a marvelously skilled writer. The 500-plus pages of non-fussy literary art simply fly by. He tells the truthful story of Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng in such a lovingly precise way. While Eggers is known for playful, postmodern turns in his previous books like A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity, this novel treats a sobering story of a man and a country in crisis with the utmost respect and care. There is something really cool about a writer with mad technical skills practicing restraint—holding off on the metatextual machinations and florid passages of description to simply tell a story.
I would definitely recommend that you read this book, but only if you like books that are awesome.
posted by Mike @ 9:16 AM
3 Comments:
I gotta check that one out! Will I be able to???? I hope so.
Yeah, the library has tons of copies.
I think I need to read this book. By the way this is my blog I recently started blogging on again. By recent I mean an hour ago.
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