Dave Eggers reading from What is the What

Before he started reading, he was talking about his process for twisting Deng's voice into his own. This excerpt is one of the first things he wrote when working on the book.

Moe's Books, Berkeley.

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[pvasshep]

Please post some more of this video! It just stops in the middle of a sentence! I know anyone who sees this would love for you to post more - assuming you took more...

[debacleus]

I actually ran out of room on my memory card at that point... Sorry. :P

[rawkus1167]

Thank you. I am a huge Eggers fan (and I absolutely love "What is the What"). Am I the only person btw who actually liked "You Shall Know Our Velocity"?

[debacleus]

Personally, I found it pretty boring.

[inushojo]

HALLEUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK U IM READING THIS BOOK 4 MY SUMMER READING 4 SCHOOL AND IVE BEEN HAVING A SEMI HARD TIME READNG IT WHOEVER POSTED THIS THANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNK U U ARE MY LIFE SAVOR PLZZZ ADD MORE

[zoetropez]

@PeterOzanne Speaking of human rights abuses...here's one: reading Dave Eggers. The man should be tried for crimes against humanity and pilloried in the Hague.

[anacreonsociety]

@zoetropez I commend you, dear.

[anacreonsociety]

Dave Eggers is about as innovative and intelligent as a puss-filled cyst, and certainly less emotive. What a crock! Of course, if you pick the most sentimental subject of this inveterate era you're going to be revered like a God. Look at his self-righteous chin-grabbing. Excuse me while I go vomit.

[PeterOzanne]

@zoetropez What is the problem?

Do you think it's wrong to highlight Human rights abuses, including those by the USA?

[dollin420]

I this is a briliant man with loads of raw talent he wrote one of my favorite books You Shall Know Our Velocity! All you cock smokers can keep coughing on that dick!

[TEAMRANDOMSTUDIOS]

most people who hate dave eggers are just jealous. He wrote a book that "anyone can write"

it reads like that but it isn't that's why people like him. because he wrote it for us. Stop being jealous

[TrevorCrown]

And if nothing else, Eggers ought to be revered for the life he's led and the service he's done. I encourage everyone who views this video to look into the projects he has headed for community literacy and inner city students.

[TrevorCrown]

I don't yet understand the hatred toward Eggers that surfaces on sites like this one. I've read A.H.W.O.S.G. and am in the process of reading You Shall Know Our Velocity, and I love Dave Eggers. I may not love him in quite the same way I love a classically great author (James Joyce), but he deserves respect as a writer. He is inventive and captivating, without sounding amateur with his stream-of-consciousness, as Jonathan Foer sometimes is. Also, comparing him to Tyler Perry is crossing a line.

[zoetropez]

Hi there! STFU? Eggers is a primo douchebag. A no-talent hack. Of course, you are what you consume, so I imagine you're a buddy booth slopbucket yourself, especially with the name "nycdude999." Shut up you bitter illiterate nobody. K? thanks.