Books by John D'Agata
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review 1: Alas, I am neither pretentious enough nor overeducated enough to appreciate the dickwad-ery presented in this book. Author D'Agata makes the argument that an essay should not be held to journalistic standards, and that the publisher is the one categorizing his work as non-fictio...
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review 1: The aspect of this book I found most striking is its adherence to standard formatting despite its elliptical mode of storytelling. I love D'Agata's jumpcuts - he'll be mid-scene getting a tour of Yucca Mountain then go off on Edvard Munch for pages, then a particular suicide vict...
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review 1: I thought that this book was too boring and jumped around too much. Very hard to follow. If you like facts and trivial information, then maybe it would be more interesting. I did like the bottom line, the reason for the book, which I believe was to inform the reader about Yucca M...
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review 1: Overall I enjoyed this book quite a bit, but can't go higher than 3 stars. The years that have been spent on making Yucca Mountain a nuclear waste site are a joke. The best part of the book for me was the story of how to store the waste safely for 10,000 years when it will not be...