Allegra's Reviews > Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category

About 20% of this book is cleverly hilarious. The rest is awful, often reminding me of draggingly torturous SNL skits. For a humor book, it sure takes itself seriously. I tend to like Eggers, but this books is a culmination of everything about him and McSweeney's that annoys me: wordplay with painful precision, making a mockery of the very thing you ask people to buy, something that was funny only until about the end of the title, and yeah, I get it, you're clever, but do something with it instead of just flashing it around. The more of this review I write, the less I like this book. There are SOME killer pieces here, but they're few and far between.