(noun) a fissile rock that is formed by the conso…
How We Are Hungry
by
Dave Eggers
April 26, 2017 - April 27, 2017
(read)
Eggers, D. (2005). How We Are Hungry. Vintage.
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shale »
p.175
peripatetic »
traveling from place to place, especially working…
p.128
vitiligo »
(noun) a skin disorder manifested by smooth white…
p.102
execrable »
(adjective) deserving to be execrated; detestable…
p.69
tangelos »
a citrus fruit hybrid of tangerine and pomelo or …
p.101
My mouth dried and I pretended to keep smiling. W…
p.74
[...] Chuck insisted on ending the letter with "I…
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[...] Why did he feel violated? He felt punched, …
p.15
I wanted to know that I wouldn't die like a bug, …
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[...] The last horse I'd been on had bitten me co…
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Another
a foreigner in Egypt visits pyramid after pyramid in the hopes of knowing that he won't die like a bug
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a foreigner in Egypt visits pyramid after pyramid in the hopes of knowing that he won't die like a bug
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What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust
a short but actually pretty cool vignette that (imo) depicts how entrenched American patriotism is, by elucidating a random American man's feelings about the mutilation of his nation's soldiers (referring to Somalia perhaps? lots of possibilities really)
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What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust
a short but actually pretty cool vignette that (imo) depicts how entrenched American patriotism is, by elucidating a random American man's feelings about the mutilation of his nation's soldiers (referring to Somalia perhaps? lots of possibilities really)
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The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water
kind of a weird one about a girl named Pilar who goes to Costa Rica and hooks up with some guy named Hand, whom she has convinced herself is worth her time (though tbh they both seem like pretty hopeless, self-absorbed individuals)
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The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water
kind of a weird one about a girl named Pilar who goes to Costa Rica and hooks up with some guy named Hand, whom she has convinced herself is worth her time (though tbh they both seem like pretty hopeless, self-absorbed individuals)
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On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home
less than a page. a man is building a small house in the backyard. no one cares.
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On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home
less than a page. a man is building a small house in the backyard. no one cares.
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Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance
some guy named Fish has a cousin who has attempted suicide seven times and he has to visit him
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Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance
some guy named Fish has a cousin who has attempted suicide seven times and he has to visit him
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She Waits, Seething, Blooming
a single mother waits up for her teenage son and can't wait to start the emotional abuse. this felt creepily personal ... maybe Dave Eggers' mother was like this
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She Waits, Seething, Blooming
a single mother waits up for her teenage son and can't wait to start the emotional abuse. this felt creepily personal ... maybe Dave Eggers' mother was like this
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Quiet
some cuck gets friendzoned by a girl who has only one arm. there's a great scene when he finds out that she had a threesome with his old colleagues (the three of them had promised to never touch her). then he basically forces himself on her and yeah this story is weird, idk what Dave is trying to say with this one
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Quiet
some cuck gets friendzoned by a girl who has only one arm. there's a great scene when he finds out that she had a threesome with his old colleagues (the three of them had promised to never touch her). then he basically forces himself on her and yeah this story is weird, idk what Dave is trying to say with this one
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Your Mother and I
another kind of stupid one told as a first-person monologue from father to son, about how he and his wife basically solved all the world's problems
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Your Mother and I
another kind of stupid one told as a first-person monologue from father to son, about how he and his wife basically solved all the world's problems
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Naveed
some girl who has had sex with 12 men doesn't want to have sex with one more because then it'll be a "baker's dozen" and the next guy will make fun of her for that, so she decides she has to go to at least 14
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Naveed
some girl who has had sex with 12 men doesn't want to have sex with one more because then it'll be a "baker's dozen" and the next guy will make fun of her for that, so she decides she has to go to at least 14
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Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone
this was the worst ... actually in the form of notes (think Adult World II in Brief Interviews). some old guy who wants to die surrounded by people in a stadium. he does.
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Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone
this was the worst ... actually in the form of notes (think Adult World II in Brief Interviews). some old guy who wants to die surrounded by people in a stadium. he does.
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About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her
short one about a guy who wants to start flying (gliders, parachutes, etc) now that he's met some girl
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About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her
short one about a guy who wants to start flying (gliders, parachutes, etc) now that he's met some girl
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Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly
long one about Rita climbing up Mount Kilimanjaro with a small tour group composed of a few white people like her and a ridiculously disporportional number of porters. they make it to the top, but some of the porters die on the way.
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Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly
long one about Rita climbing up Mount Kilimanjaro with a small tour group composed of a few white people like her and a ridiculously disporportional number of porters. they make it to the top, but some of the porters die on the way.
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When They Learned to Yelp
did not like this one at all. nothing to do with finding restaurants or dogs, but instead with "Americans of a certain age" who had only recently realized they were capable of expressing great horror. something to do with terrorism I guess?
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When They Learned to Yelp
did not like this one at all. nothing to do with finding restaurants or dogs, but instead with "Americans of a certain age" who had only recently realized they were capable of expressing great horror. something to do with terrorism I guess?
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After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
a really silly one about a dog who dies (written in the first person)
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After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
a really silly one about a dog who dies (written in the first person)
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