![]() ![]() I wrote this a few years ago, back when I had just finished reading the book, but before I had died. ![]() Eggers walks a nice line between acknowledging that yes, it can be romantic and charming, and it can also be incredibly awkward and wrong. The idea of randomly handing money to people has a certain romantic charm, and Mr. Plus it really goes to the core of how it feels to be a relatively priviledged person today, who knows that he should be trying to help less fortunate people, but has absolutely no idea how to really go about doing that. ![]() And this book is a perfect summary and explanation of that feeling. This idea that every moment that you arent experiencing something new you are wasting your life.I know that isn't true, but I feel it too sometimes. ![]() I identified very strongly with these characters, and this blind desire to keep moving, and have only important, true, enlightening experiences. It's like a movie where you know they are trying to make you cry, and you do cry, and then feel bad about it because you know that they played you like a fiddle.īut as much as I'd like to resist it, I am a fiddle and this book played me. It just seems so blatantly directed at exactly who I am, a late 20's person confused about what direction to take in life. I'm a little torn here, because I feel like I was supposed to like this book, so part of me wants to pretend that I didn't like it. ![]()
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