This is a reincarnation of a masterpiece and it's sad that it doesn't even come close to living up to that material.Īnyone who loves Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and senses the archetypal symbols and rich interplay of wildness and domesticity, the friction between Dionysian and Apollonian impulses, will marvel at this brilliant novel. I found this book a chore to read and so can't recommend it. There are some good characters in this book, mainly Katherine, and the story is interesting at times, albeit far from often, hence the two star rating. It almost seems like he just didn't know how to carry on such a pointless novel anymore and gave up. The ending is also incredibly rushed, and more happens in the last 10 pages than the entire first 270 pages combined. It's just a bunch of mindless violence and destruction that does nothing to advance the story. However, things go downhill from there and the next 200 or so pages are filler there's no real plot. The plot starts out decently, albeit with a very weird event occurring, as I've mentioned. But that's a small complaint, compared to the bigger issues this book has. This is true of the other three Eggers works I've read and is true of this book also. Eggers writes stories where very weird things will happen that almost make the story seem like unreality, as if you're maybe reading someone's nightmare or lucid dream.
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