I’ve never gotten around to reading Dave Eggers’ A heartbreaking work of staggering genius & have no real opinions on him as an author… but his latest novel seems to feature Schwinn Bikes as some kind of symbol for the decline in US manufacturing:

Alan Clay is a consultant. He started off as a door-to-door salesman and worked his way up through Schwinn bikes

Judging by his NYT review of Grant Petersen’s Just Ride, it seems Eggers is a cyclist. Perhaps STW should start publishing novels…

ive never gotten around to reading Dave Eggers’ A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

– it had great reviews at the time, but never did it for me – I don’t even think that I finished it…

I’m got a copy of “Grant Peterson’s-Just Ride” on the go at the moment, not really a book to purposefully sit down and read but if you’ve got 15 mins to kill or want a quick read to dip into wi cup of tea or espresso then it’s ideal for that purpose – he speaks a lot of sense and i’ve found myself agreeing wi what he writes about more often than not.

I’ve not read any of Dave Eggers though.

He’s an impressive figure but not sure he’s got what it takes as a serious novelist – A heartbreaking work.. is pretty limited – it’s like a 300 page blog.

I’d like to read his latest tbh as he’s probably a miles better writer now, little chance of me getting round to picking it up though. Way too many books ahead of it.

lucien – Member
ive never gotten around to reading Dave Eggers’ A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
– it had great reviews at the time, but never did it for me – I don’t even think that I finished it…

Same here. His more recent stuff is good though (I’ve read Zeitoun and What is the What in the last year), but they’re even less novels than A Heartbreaking Work… . The review of his latest in the London Review of Books seemed quite apt: basically that he’s finally written the kind of book ‘a novelist would write’.