Journal Entry 1 by Voyage555 from Staten Island, New York USA on Friday, June 20, 2003

Heard a lot of good reviews about this book, but for some reason i couldn't get into it. Hope it will find a good home 

Journal Entry 2 by Voyage555 at please use CONTROLLED RELEASES country in Brooklyn, New York USA on Friday, June 20, 2003

Release planned for Sunday, June 22, 2003 at By Mail to a fellow BookCrosser in BROOKLYN, New York USA.

Passing this book to Seferim as part of a trade. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 3 by Seferim from Columbia, Maryland USA on Friday, June 27, 2003

I have heard the same good reviews... hopefully I will be able to get into it! Thanks Voyage555!

After I read this one, it is promised to choclaholic in NH 

Journal Entry 4 by Seferim from Columbia, Maryland USA on Wednesday, July 09, 2003

I tried... I was told not to read the Preface because it is very boring and messes things up. So, I started reading the regular chapter one, and was mainly grossed out and filled with pity. I read about 50 pages and it really did not grab me. This always seems to happen to me with books that get such great reviews, and I find myself completely uninterested. Perhaps I should have stuck with it longer, but I have such a large TBR pile, I thought that I should go on and start some of those. Thanks Voyage555 for sending it to me--I guess we do have the same taste in books!

I will send this one to choclaholic when I get back to Maryland this next weekend. Hopefully she will like it more than we did! :) 

Journal Entry 5 by choclaholic from San Antonio, Texas USA on Monday, July 28, 2003

Thank you Serefim, it arrived safely in the mail! Into my reading pile it goes. (I had to buy a whole new bookshelf just to hold my to-be-read pile! It's like I have my own lending library at home!) 

Journal Entry 6 by choclaholic from San Antonio, Texas USA on Tuesday, August 05, 2003

This was kind of a strange book -- not what I expected at all. I kinda liked it, but I'm surprised it got such rave critical reviews. It was a cliff notes version of Dave Eggers life told with too much detail on the inane and inconsequential, and the meat-and-potatoes portions were told in fast-forward at light speed (important events would literally switch from past tense to future tense). But I guess that was the point. He told his story in a kind stream of conciousness way and it was told truthfully even through a veil of lies. And we come away knowing Dave Eggers has a full imagination, a great fantasy life, is full of wit, and has a way with words. And he does also have a semi-famous brother (Bill) who did actually write that book about down-sizing government (I found it on the internet).

There were some pretty funny parts like when he lost his wallet during a tryst on the beach, and I actually laughed out loud during his marathoning nude photo shoot.

 

Journal Entry 7 by choclaholic from San Antonio, Texas USA on Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Promised to bookcrosser nina-ivanovna in a trade.  

Journal Entry 8 by nina-ivanovna from Ithaca, New York USA on Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Received in the mail from choclaholic - thanks! 

Journal Entry 9 by nina-ivanovna from Ithaca, New York USA on Sunday, January 18, 2004

Picked up another copy of this at a booksale, so I'm passing this one on to a fellow member of thebookcart.com - enjoy!