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sjbrot:

--- Quote from: JLM ---Part of the problem I have with Eggers (and, to a lesser extent, Michael Chabon), is that their writing is, by nature, disenfranchising.  Eggers (and again, Chabon) doesn't have the ability to deal with strong female characters, so he simply writes them out or renders them inept or helpless.
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That's actually something I haven't thought about till now. And it's true. He doesn't even put forth much of an effort on that front.

But, I still find him to be a compelling storyteller. He does use a lot of gimmicky post-modernism in his writting. However, he's interesting to read, he has a sense of humour about the whole affair, and, as I feel he proved with You Shall Know Our Velocity!, he can actually create characters that make a progression through out the story. If that's not good storytelling, et cetera.

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