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Just wondering if anyone has read You Shall Know our Velocity by Dave Eggers...I read it a while back but it's a book for travelers to appreciate and unfortunately I don't have alot of fellow travelers here to discuss it with..just wondering if anyone else has had the chance to read it

Yes, I have, and David Eggers is actually coming to Portland in two weeks (yeah!). I'm a bigger fan of Heartbreaking Work, but this was good too. Moving this to travel writing forum

Court

I've read it too and it is outstanding. It's heartbreaking (no pun intended) yet funny at the same time. As soon as I figure out how to write the inner dialogue, I am going to adapt it into a screenplay. It would make a beautiful film.

I too loved Heartbreaking, but did anyone else find And You Shall Know Our Velocity, his second book, a bit dull? I didn't even finish it, and it's more geared towards what I like (traveling).

I'm not sure what the deal was, but I just didn't enjoy it very much at all.

Eggars also has another book out called How We Are Hungry - but I've yet to read it yet.

he's kind of sunk to the bottom of my reading list ever ... there's some scene in Heartbreaking Work where he's undoing the brassiere of a one night stand and he's a-skeered of the sag of the 27 year old breasts he's about to behold. dave honey, i can throw mine over the shoulder like a continental soldier, tie em in a knot, tie em in a bow. I guess every intrepid traveler has an achilles heel... and maybe he's seen some riper fruit since then. Reading that passage, i didn't get the sense he was being self-mocking, inviting readers to laugh at what a silly, ass he was. speaking of which, he's getting older and his should be drooping halfway down his thighs by now. can you check on that for us, court, and report back? Thanks!
xo ayun

Hey ayun-

he was in good spirits when i saw him read a few weeks ago...don't know about the drooping to the thighs

Nope, I havent, I will go kill myself now!