Unfriend is your friend!

Yes, God yes! I don't even watch network news anymore, or cable for that matter, because it's like they all took some bad LSD and are on the same trip. And there wasn't a tab left for me...so yeah, I need logic.

Samesies.

I was just thinking I need to catch up on recent DS/CR episodes. If I am going to drown in a pit of despair about our government, at least I can laugh while doing so.

John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are the only people that keep me sane living in this country. If I ever get overwhelmed I just watch them and get a healthy dose of logic and feel like it's all gonna be ok again.

Yes. Yes, yes.

I managed to finish HWOSG but it took me a loooooooong time (I kept falling asleep) and I cannot tell you one single thing about it now. That's how much I absorbed.

You can add me to this group. I have tried multiple times to finish it, and just could not.

I think that "heartbreaking work" was one of the first books I never completely finished. Before that, I always felt weird guilt and had to finish everything I started; Egger's self-absorption freed me from reading awful books, so I have to thank him, really.

I slogged through "A Heartbreaking Work" and had - seriously - 20 pages to go when I just stopped. I just could not go through with it. It was torture getting to that point and I felt that, if I finished, then the book had won.

Also who's up for starting a real thing called Dream Fridays? Please?

THANK YOU for saying that. I've always felt that way and thought I was all alone.... He's incredibly overrated and self-absorbed, ugh.

I'm cracking up at how we both put in the same "if you can't say anything nice..." compliment at the end. It was pretty!

Well, now I am worried about you. Eggers work is to engrossing what 'induced coma' is to 'party time'.

And releasing it as this horrible thing. I worked at a book store at the time and had to deal with a fucking SHEDDING BOOK that no one bought.

Let's just say that I survived reviewing dozens of short stories and poems for SF State's creative writing magazines. The literary masturbation was thermonuclear.

I cannot stand his writing. It's just god awful.

If you rate "A Heartbreaking Work" as fine, I'm so glad I never gave another one a shot. I found it the most back-patty, self-absorbed piece of literary masturbation I've ever had the misfortune to read, and I've read Chuck Palahniuk's book about writers trapped in a house.

I have never finished A Heartbreaking Work. I tried three times. I figure if the third time wasn't the charm, it wasn't meant to be. Actually, I may have finished it the third time but forgot about it. That speaks for itself.

Has anyone else struggled to read an Eggers book from cover to cover? "A Heartbreaking Work" is fine but you can tell it was heavily edited by Simon & Schuster. His McSweeney's works tend to be a chore to slog through.