I can't go on, I must go on. David Eggers

[lionhearted]

I am half-way through reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and it's getting tedious.
Is it worth finishing?

If you don't like it, no. I thought it was fun and I even read all the little teeny tiny hold the book the other way up bits, but this was all before I had children :)

Thanks. That's what I wanted to hear to alleviate the guilt of book abandonment.

Am impressed that you read the notes as well, though, you must have really enjoyed it at the time.

I think David Foster Wallace is much better. I liked AHWSG ok, but don't remember it that much.

He used to do a magazine, called Might, that was great. McSweeneys sorta annoys. The Believer is good, though.

I abandoned 'Everything is illuminated'

What a heap of crap that was.

Isn't that by Someone Else Entirely? Some 12-year-old or something? It did sound annoying, though. I think he's had bits published in the New Yorker and failed to amuse me.

Yes,it was all a lie wasn't it.
Or was that 'A million Tiny Pieces'?
Or maybe both....

yeah, extended pretentious wank. I'm sure he had fun.
bin it.

Jonathan Safer Foer? I think? Everything is Illuminated is meant to be Modern Fiction. A Million Tiny Pieces is meant to be memoir.

AHWSG is meant to be semi-memoir, I think.

Doesn't anyone read David Foster Wallace? He's lovely. I'll start his own thread, only I should be in bed.

I loved AHWOSG.

When dh accidentally threw it into the recycling skip I went out and bought it again.

Even though I had already read it - twice.

I think the first half of ASWHG (pah wrong order) is entertaining and then it dribbles away a bit so reading the first half is probably the right thing to do.

Yep, it's going. 'Cos that's the other thing about after you have children, you start to resent the space taken up by fat, self-indulgent books.