top of page
Close
 

Log In
Email or User Name:
Password:

Forgot your password?
Log In
Register
Please register with Shopping.com.
Share your opinions and help others make informed buying decisions.Close
Email Address:
User Name:(4-14 characters.)
Password:(At least 7 characters, different than username.)
Verify password:
Verification code:

By clicking on the button below, you agree to the Shopping.com User Agreement and Privacy Policy.


Sign me up to receive Shopping.com's great deals and promotions.

Register
Thank You  for registering at Shopping.comClose
The confirmation message has been resent to your inbox.
 
Please check your email account below to activate your membership:


No email yet?
Forgot PasswordClose
Your temporary password has been resent to your inbox.
 
A temporary password has been sent to your email. Once you sign in, please visit your member profile page to change your password.

No email yet?

Please enter the email address you used to register your account. If you can't remember your email, please contact customer service at support@shopping.com.
Email Address:
Clicking on "Submit" will reset your password. A temporary password will be sent to the email you enter above.
Submit
 
Home Clothing Shoes Computers Electronics Shop Green At Home Health Kids  See all  
What are you shopping for? See your recent searches
 
Home

> Media > Books

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

 
35 reviews
 
from $4.64 7 offers
  • Write a review
  • Share

  • New list has been created

    This product has been added to newly created

    Please enter a valid list name

    List already exists

    This product has already been saved to

    The product already exists in this list

    reached upper limit of 50 items. Please add the item to another list or create a new list

    This product has been added to List Name

    Save to List
    choose list or create new list

    Invalid List Name

    list name or choose list
    visible Public Private
    Save Cancel
Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
 
 
 
 
 
Smart Buy! Lowest price from a Trusted Store
Amazon
 
$10.20
See Total Price
Visit Store
 
Lowest Price!
HotBookSale
$4.64
See Total Price
Free Shipping!
Visit Store
 
Featured Offer
HotBookSale
$4.64
See Total Price
Free Shipping!
Visit Store
See All 7 Offers
Why are these offers here?
 

Review Summary

Average Rating: 4.5
 
Based on 35 reviews
21
42
03
124
175
 
Rating Distribution
Pros
  • No Pros Yet
Cons
  • No Cons Yet
It's Good For
  • No Uses Yet
Be the first to tag this product!
Recommendations to buy:
Yes
No
 
29
 
6
 
Back to top

Review List

Showing 1 - 10 of 35 Reviews

 
Sort by:
147 out of 147 people found this review helpful.

A Staggering Genius can be Heartbreaking Work

Date of Review:  May 11, 2000
Review: Copernicus was wrong: Earth and all the planets actually, as it turns out, revolve around Dave Eggers.

Now, let me warn you, this review is far longer than most of mine, so if you want to just skip ahead to about mid-way, that's when I get...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  5.0

by: juliette
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
The heartbreaking part
Cons
Still waiting for the staggering genius...
 
85 out of 85 people found this review helpful.

Dave Eggers Eloquently Staggers Toward Adulthood

Date of Review:  Feb 22, 2000
Review: When I initially posted this review in February, in was located in the "Mystery and Detective" section of the book category. This has since been corrected.

First, a clarification: Regardless of what the staff at Epinions would have one...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  4.0

by: kchowell
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Beautifully written and intelligently...
Cons
Some of the literary devices aren't...
 
66 out of 66 people found this review helpful.

Over-rated masterpiece of Self-Obsession; check a library

Date of Review:  Dec 30, 2000
Review: I really wanted to like this book. I've read a lot of rave reviews on it, including the others here at Epinions, and I've had some friends read it who enjoyed it. So I checked it out at the library, and started reading it at about 5:00 AM on a...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  2.0

by: JediKermit
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Good comic style, some "heartbreaking"...
Cons
Too obsessed with himself (like all of...
 
93 out of 94 people found this review helpful.

It Was Staggering: Confessions From Dave's Jealous Friend

Date of Review:  Feb 28, 2000
Review: In the spirit of Dave's book, let me say straight up front that I am shamelessly trading on my personal acquaintance with the author to do two things: 1) draw some more attention to this review, and 2) make me look cooler by association. More...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  5.0

by: Lambira
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
A brilliant, exciting book; a surprise...
Cons
Cutesy literary devices sometimes...
 
60 out of 60 people found this review helpful.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Nearly Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Date of Review:  Jan 11, 2006
The Bottom Line: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius showcases Dave Eggers' unique and extraordinary talent, but it needed an editor.
Review: When I saw the Michiko Kakutani quote on the cover of Dave Eggers' first novel praising it as "a virtuosic piece of writing" this and a "manic-depressive stew of a book" that, I knew it had to be worth picking up. I'm an avid reader of the New York...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  4.0

by: meagandowney
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
A real tour-de-force
Cons
Three books haphazardly combined into...
 
139 out of 142 people found this review helpful.

Buy This Book Or Else...

Date of Review:  Mar 1, 2000
Review:

Posted April 30, 2000

This Epinion as well my others are on hiatus.

In the event Epinions gets up and running smoothly, it may return. It is hard to dedicate a meaningful chunk of your life only to find that your efforts...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  5.0

by: A.Mobley
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
none
Cons
none
 
50 out of 50 people found this review helpful.

A Powerful and Poignant Defense Against Grief

Date of Review:  Jan 6, 2001
The Bottom Line: This is an astonishingly intimate memoir of Eggers, orphaned in young adulthood and named guardian of his younger brother. I laughed, I cried, I thought, I sighed.
Review: Released in paperback February 2001.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the topsoil of a tragedy, the first layers of earth pushed aside in a painful personal excavation, where the treasure seems to remain deeply buried.
...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  4.0

by: prettyinpink
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Enormously endearing and compelling...
Cons
Not a manual for mourning
 
49 out of 49 people found this review helpful.

Mo' meta blues

Date of Review:  Feb 10, 2000
Review: After the Eggers bookreading in the City, I overheard one hipster savant say to another: "He even uses the same font as David Foster Wallace."

He was wrong, of course. Flip through "Infinite Jest" and look at the serifs on the G's. Compare...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  5.0

by: Mr_Scrooby
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
I laughed! I cried! I stayed up until 4...
Cons
Reminded me that I, myself, am not that...
 
44 out of 44 people found this review helpful.

A snarky tale of a man, his brother and death

Date of Review:  Apr 13, 2000
Review: The author of this epinion would like to make several points:

a)That he is copying the style of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius unabashedly.
b)That in doing so, he is only reinforcing the contrast between his sub-par writing...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  4.0

by: mgreber
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Great humor, excellent writing and...
Cons
A bit too cheeky at times for its own...
 
42 out of 42 people found this review helpful.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Narcissism

Date of Review:  Aug 1, 2004
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line thinks that Dave Eggers is a narcissist if this book is to be believed.
Review: Last summer, when I was on bedrest during my final pregnancy, three of my girlfriends got together and sent me a care package of books, magazines, and other fun things. One of the books, to my delight, was Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of...
Was this review helpful?       |   

Read full review » 

Please let us know what kind of issue this is:
Profanity
Wrong product *
Spam
Duplicate *
Copyright violation *
Not a product review
Other

Comments:
(required for issues marked with a *)

 Max. 1000 characters

Submit
Cancel
  2.0

by: pippadaisy
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
There really is a good book in there...
Cons
You won't be able to find it without an...
 

Showing 1 - 10 of 35 Reviews

Page 1 2 3 4

 
 
 
 
Back to top
Switch to: Overview | Compare Prices
 

Sponsored Listings

 About sponsored listings
 
 
Site Index - Books
Top Searches - Books
 
 
advertisement
 
What are you shopping for? See your recent searches
 
Share your feedback
 

Home | About Shopping.com | Merchant Directory | Site Index | Top Searches

Shopping.com France France Shopping.com Germany Germany Shopping.com UK United Kingdom Shopping.com Australia Australia Shopping.com USA USA

eBay | Free Classifieds | PayPal | Find Deals at Paypal | Apartments for Rent

Join our Merchant Program | Join our Partner Program | Advertise with Us | Jobs

Merchant Login | Help | User Agreement | Contact Us | Privacy |Workshop

Copyright © 2000-2009 Shopping.com