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The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious
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The Cover for Dave Eggers' New Book is Just Precious |
06/18/09
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I'm mixing you a martini right now. Just sit down and I'll get it over there in a minute.
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And if it's a byproduct of Where the Wild Things Are, then isn't calling it "twee" kind of spectacularly missing the point?
I just don't understand the twee-bashing. None of it.
06/18/09
Not everything everyone thinks, does or creates is for us (cynical, overeducated 20/30-somethings). This book seems pretty obviously aimed at kids, and I know exactly how I would have reacted if I were 8 and seeing this book on the shelves.
06/18/09
Kids, feh. Who knows what's "age-appropriate" these days anyway?
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Also, during sex, "the Earth moved out from under them." isn't that sort of twee?
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So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Sounds pretty twee to me. But also great. And I'd like to hear someone criticize Hunter S. Thompson as twee. A degenerate, narcissistic, cynical misogynist maybe, but twee? Feh.
06/18/09