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Ahahaha!! That was one of the worst things I've read in a while.You know, like it's all dialogue, which I guess is a technique he's partly biting from William Gaddis, who obviously did it wayyyy better! I was at least looking forward to a mess of speakers all at once but it's just one guy who pairs off folk and talks to them one-on-one, which makes it much easier to write than a novel written in standard form with even a single scene with many people in the same room, so it's far from daringly w...

1.5 starsEasily the worst of Eggers' offerings I've read so far, YFWAT?ATPDTLF? is another effort of his to champion a "cause", and rally for the rights of the disenfranchised. Unlike vastly superior efforts like What is the What and Zeitoun, this time Eggers tries humorless Palahniuk-y gimmickry coupled with limp Mamet-esque theatrics to deliver his message. As my political viewpoints are similarly aligned to his, Eggers is preaching to the choir, but thanks to an utter lack of subtlety and (cu...

"What do you want to build? The world is already built.""So I just walk around in an already built world? That's a joke.""That's the joke you live in."

Okay. I love Dave Eggers. I can't help it. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is probably still my all-time favorite book, and I love What is the What and Zeitoun, and I love the work he does with McSweeney's and 826 and Voices of Witness. Love it.But the problem is I think over the last few years (as he enters middle-aged white dude status) Dave Eggers has been on some kind of quest to see if he can make the struggles of middle-class white dudes as interesting as like, refugees and tragi...

I LOVED IT!!!! Enormously provocative and hilarious. The first half of the book, my husband and I read aloud together. (we were having a blast --stopping and having discussions) --- I finished the last half myself after he went to sleep. Several negative reviews???? I do NOT AGREE!!! This book allows for DISCUSSION --- Its too thin of a book to share much or give much away. Its best just reading it. It will only take a few hours of your time: FULLY WORTH the CREATIVE experience!!!!!Here are a 'f...

I don't understand why so maybe people hated this book. I thought writing in all dialogue was interesting. Challenging to some, maybe, but we were told where they were, what it was like. We knew. I'm not a man. But I understood his plight. I don't think it was about middle aged white entitlement. I think he could have been any color, really. It was about people who have this feeling of displacement. That they have this energy, this something inside them that isn't exactly destructive but not exa...

Whenever I'm trying a new author, I strive to pick up a book of theirs that will make their fans yell "NO DON'T START THERE."I love when being dumb works out for me.A lot of the criticism of this book is about it being gimmicky, but I’m always a sucker for a gimmicky book. I read Jonathan Safran Foer at a formative age - it's not my fault.Plus, this is a good read for anyone who has ever gotten so frustrated with the system that they see red, who has wanted to trap authority figures and ask them...

This isn't fiction, it's op-ed wankery. After The Circle and this, I now have no interest in Eggers' next book. It makes me wonder: when's the last time anybody said to him, "Hey Dave? This isn't very good."

On an abandoned military base on the Pacific coast, a troubled man called Thomas has kidnapped an astronaut and tied him up. What does Thomas want and why is he doing this? To have a chat about the good ol’ days. Except for Thomas, the conversation is just beginning - and he wants to get more people involved...This is easily the best novel I’ve read all year. Dave Eggers’ Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is an all-dialogue novel, meaning no omniscient narrato...

I have so many problems with this book.First of all the name is really misleading i thought this book was gonna be about religion? If you want to sell actual copies of this book change the name to "The People I Kidnapped and Why I am A Narcissistic Asshole with Grandiose Delusions". The book is entirely about man pain. Literally that's the book. And if it was written from the point of view where its like, yes, this guys an asshole, and were trying to show you that, and why its bad, i could have

I've read a lot of Dave Eggers books. (I used to own 3 different versions of SACRAMENT.) In some ways this is a return to form of some of his earlier novels. Loose, strange, not in search of any greater good but just there to tell an unusual story with unusual characters. And as much as I adore WHAT IS THE WHAT and his ambitious fiction, I can't deny the enjoyment of reading YOUR FATHERS, WHERE ARE THEY? and how quickly I was able to dash through it.It is hard to review this book, it certainly d...

I read this as I was flying into a place that was unknown to myself; love and retrieval of the future was my main focus and I succeeded in both and for that, I will always be thankful. Now…my thoughts with this book and author. Rating would have to be closer to a 3.5.Dave Eggers is an interesting one. He always tends to bring up national/international issues within his books, but with a quirky sense of satire mixed in.  With his newest “Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Liv...

DNF at Page 72 (I don't leave star ratings to books I don't finish!)This is a dialogue format story about a NASA astronaut who discovers he has been kidnapped and the one who kidnapped him claimed to know him from the past. They spend lots of time discussing and answering questions and accusations. The story was most definitely not for me. I wasn't a fan of the subject content and felt quite triggered by one exchange between the two characters during the section I read. I can see why readers wil...

In 270 pages, Eggers manages to speak what we know but can't always articulate. As a nation, we fought WW2, made sacrifices for the war effort. In the 60's our goal was the space race, to get to the moon. In recent years, we have become a nation of divorce, pills, and isolation. Eggers brings this home when he introduces us to Thomas, who has some issues in his earlier life that have left him in some considerable pain and has been driven over the edge. We get it though, because we are children a...