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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (2013)

by Dave Eggers(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0544105508 (ISBN13: 9780544105508)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Mariner Books

review 1: Glad to be done with this wretched book. The writing is great, yes, but the content was too disturbing and/or depressing for my tastes. I kept reading, hoping for at least one uplifting, feel-good tale, but it never came (except for maybe The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador, and even that wasn't enough to redeem the book although it did lead me to some spectacularly gruesome YouTube videos of bullfighting). The high school kids that chose these selections as the best of the best need to turn off their emo music and spend more time outside in the fresh air. There's nothing wrong with an unsettling story here and there but Every. Single. One. Come on guys! I did enjoy a few selections, and now that I think about it, they were the only nonfiction ones - Hannah and Andrew,... more Finding Oscar, and the aforementioned The Blind Faith of a One-Eyed Matador. And the all-too-brief Best American Yada Yada Yada was by far my favorite, as are all things Seinfeld.
review 2: This is a great collection of diverse short stories from authors that have very little in common. It was a fun read because after 20 or so pages you can jump right into the world of a different story if you wish to do so. I did not give this book 5 stars because I did not enjoy every single story and at times I thought that the Editor chose some of the stories because they were "different" or ethnic. Surely, there were more enjoyable stories that were published during 2013. Overall, the story about the Yakuza and the one about the two friends in San Francisco were a blast to read. Definately worth buying or taking out from the library because of the variety of literature (mostly enjoyable). less

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