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Title: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 by Michael Cart, Dave Eggers ISBN: 0-618-24694-0 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Memories
Comment: The problem with some of these collections is that many of us who read magazines have already read those articles that appear in these end of year collections. The piece about Marilyn Manson was also in the Jonathan Lethem music collection too. It's good that Eggers has included some stuff for McSweeneys.net, comic books, and other non-mainstream sources. Those are usually the better ones anyway. I like Marc Bolan too.
Rating: 5
Summary: a great collection, check it out!
Comment: This was a fascinating collection. Most of the "Best American" collections are straight forward. You have a good idea of what you're going to get, and if you are widely read in those subjects (sports writing, science writing, short stories, etc), you may have come across most of those essays/stories. In this first collection of Non-required reading, you get the best stories and essays that would never be assigned in school and are from alternative magazines (rather than the large respected newspapers like the New York Times). The pieces collected very from short fiction, to political essays, to a graphic story (as in a story told in comic panels), to humor. It is a varied collection and most of the work is top-notch (I was less impressed with "Hubcap Diamondstar Halo").
Some highlights are "Speed Demons", "Journal of a new COBRA recruit" (yes, COBRA as in from G.I. Joe....this may be my favorite of the collection), "My Fake Job", "Fourth Angry Mouse", "Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good", the two short pieces from the Onion, "Higher Education", and "Bomb Scare" (Bomb Scare is the graphic story). Just browsing through the table of contents, I was able to list 9 pieces that I would highlight and recommend. If there was nothing else in the collection, that would be enough to recommend it. But, there are other quality pieces in this collection. If you want to read short pieces (both fiction and nonfiction) that you might not ordinarily run across every day, this is the collection for you.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but much worse than the '03 edition
Comment: If you're trying to decide between this book and the '03 edition, get the '03. This one's good, but contains far too many magazine articles and not enough fiction. The stories it does feature are mostly very short and pack nowhere near the punch of the '03 selections.
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Title: You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers ISBN: 1400033543 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 by Zadie Smith ISBN: 0618246967 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon ISBN: 140003339X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers ISBN: 0375725784 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Songbook by Nick Hornby ISBN: 1573223565 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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