Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
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Ratings8
Average rating3.4
The bestselling author of The Circle delivers a tour de force of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking solutions the only way he knows how. A "story about someone who takes revenge against the world because he can't fathom how he fits into it.... This is a one-sitting read" (USA Today). What do you do when you’re full of questions: what happened to missions to the moon? Why spend a trillion dollars on war? Where did America go wrong? If you’re Thomas, a young man nursing migraines and a lack of direction, this calls for drastic action. To find some answers, Thomas kidnaps a NASA astronaut and brings him to an abandoned military base on the edge of the California coast. Then the questioning begins. The answers must be honest. The back and forth might even hurt. It might get uncomfortable. But eventually the truth will emerge.
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I had high hopes for this book at the beginning. It started out interesting enough, and I hoped that it would be some clever play with dialogue. I hoped that the main protagonist would use the situation he created, to change the perspective and view of things of the people he kidnapped.
But all my hopes got flushed down really fast. The main protagonist turned out to be a self absorbed maniac, trapped in his own private circle jerk. Literally none of his actions made any kind of sense. I understand that he has some serious mental issues, but even with that in mind I couldn't find one part of his thinking that I could reason with.
I just felt bored the whole way through and only finished it because it's short enough. Still a waste of time.
Okay. I love Dave Eggers. I can't help it. [b:A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 4953 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327714834s/4953.jpg 42857] is probably still my all-time favorite book, and I love [b:What is the What 4952 What is the What Dave Eggers https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328837457s/4952.jpg 3271214] and [b:Zeitoun 6512154 Zeitoun Dave Eggers https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1296580156s/6512154.jpg 6703901], and I love the work he does with McSweeney's and 826 and Voices of Witness. Love it.But the problem is I think over the last few years (as he enters middle-aged white dude status) Dave Eggers has been on some kind of quest to see if he can make the struggles of middle-class white dudes as interesting as like, refugees and tragic young orphans. Spoiler alert: HE CANNOTHe's still a good writer on like, a line by line basis. But overall this whole novel is just like ughhhh we get it we have all been let down by American society we get itttttLike just please write a book about somebody with ~real problems~ Dave you're so good at that
