>
> Pete, in the UK we can buy a book by one Dave Eggers, modestly entitled 'A
> Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'.
>
> Are you by any chance related?


Don't know yet, but according to Wikipedia:

> The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number
> one on *The New York Times* bestseller list<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list>and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer
> Prize <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize> for General
> Non-Fiction. *Time Magazine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine>*and several
> newspapers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspapers> dubbed it "The Best
> Book of the Year." Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose>,
> and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by *The New
> York Times <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times>.*


Sounds like I need to be in this guys will!

And yes Roy, I did get the not so subtle application of the title to my
apparent ego on this thread!  Good one!

Peter

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