A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Worst book I've read in a while. This is four hundred and some pages of senseless rambling about nothing with a skeletal plot interspersed. Cut out the crap and you have about 50 pages of story which is not a very interesting one.

The book is wonderful expression of loss but I could have done without much of the last hundred pages.

A little disjointed, but I guess that's part of the beauty of it. Personally, I thought some of the "Hey! Check it out! This is a novel and I'm being self-conscious" elements were really kind of bothersome, but mostly I thought it was really engaging if only because I would sometimes stay up an hour or two after I should have gone to sleep. Also, any book that can make me...more

A little disjointed, but I guess that's part of the beauty of it. Personally, I thought some of the "Hey! Check it out! This is a novel and I'm being self-conscious" elements were really kind of bothersome, but mostly I thought it was really engaging if only because I would sometimes stay up an hour or two after I should have gone to sleep. Also, any book that can make me laugh out loud is usually a winner. The part where Dave talks about addressing gifts to Toph at Christmas caused what might be the most uproarious laughter I've ever undergone while reading a book. I read it over. I read it out loud to Jenny, and laughed continuously for a good six or seven minutes. Overall, I prefer "You Shall Know Our Velocity" and I don't think I love this book as much as everyone else I know does, but I really really liked it a lot.   hide

Disappointing, quite boring in places...meh.