Re: Heartbreaking

Yes, the ending was cliched and something you'd expect from a book written
in the 90s. I don't want to reveal the ending, in case anyone's interest in
it has been piqued, but it just seems like that whole issue is over-exposed.

>From: BookBritt99@aol.com
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: Heartbreaking
>Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:24:24 EST
>
> I have read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and I also think there
>is
>a bit of Holden in the boy. I didn't like the end, though. I thought it
>was
>very cliched, and a terrible way to end an otherwise incredibly beautiful
>book. And, perhaps a bit late, one book that I thought was very good
>(though
>I did not see much of a connection to CITR) that had the whole "next CITR"
>schtick on it, was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave
>Eggers.
>It was a bestseller, which I found unusual, it being a very good book, with
>literary merit.
> Well, I just read the rest of my E-mails, and found that some of
>you
>have read A Heartbreaking Work... Oh, well. I think the comment is worth
>posting, anyway.
> Britt
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Received on Thu Nov 7 21:57:55 2002