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[sarabijani]

Every time I buy a Salman Rushdie book I lose it before I get a chance to read it. If you borrowed my copy of The Satanic Verses bring it back please. Maybe it is just hidden somewhere in my messy house. Lately I have been staying out way too late and staying up even later, and I haven't been getting anything productive done. I don't hate

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[sarabijani]

I hope you can get into The God of Small Things, it really is such a great book. I am going to read it again soon. I think the thing I don't like about Dave Eggers is his romantic notions, they just seem so naive, and not in the sweet, yes I would like things to be that way too, sort of way, but more in the impossible to imagine, what exactly would be the point, sort of way. I also love books with showy language, and I just don't find his voice very exciting. For the big ideas he has, his language seems sort of flat. I am going to read his other book though, because I really do want to give him an honest chance.

[bunkbed]

You Shall Know Our Velocity is not that good of a book. I only finished it out of a sense of commitment. I have the same problem with Dave Eggers as you do with Salman Rushdie. I had to steal my copy of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius out of the back window of an ex-friend’s car, only to lose it to someone else. You should read that, it's much better, much more genuine and characters that are much easier to empathize with.

You and your relationships; they baffle me.

[sarabijani]

I will definitely read it, especially since it comes so highly recommended for exactly the reasons I didn't like the other book. It took me two weeks to get through YSKOV, and near the end I found myself skimming a lot. I mean that part about the jumping people and the mountains, what was that? It seemed distracting, and didn't really make a clear parallel to the story. The biggest problem I had is that the motivation for the entire journey they went on was so unclear. It just seemed unnatural. I mean it is hard when friends die, but I find it difficult to believe a person would react the way the narrator did. There was just so much that I expected to be made clear about the history of the characters that never was even touched on. Still though, I hope the other book proves me wrong, and he actually is a great author. He is so young, and his intentions seem so good, I really do want him to be an incredible writer.

And my relationships baffle me too.

[soulitude4]

i have dirty feet.

[sarabijani]

Is that a metaphor?

[soulitude4]

no. that would simply just be the facts.
i guess i could make it a metaphor.
i have dirty feet (feet meaning kneecaps?)
;)

[hetherington]

dear sara bijani, there is a book of short stories that dave eggers did this year, it is called how we are hungry. i know what you mean about him being a disappointment sometimes, he leans toward pretentiousness, but some of the stories in how we are hungry are amazing, especially the last one. if you want to give him a chance i would read that and skip HWOSG. i just realized that you wrote this post about two months ago though so you probably already forgot about it, whoops! annnyywayys

sarah v.