Eggers has written a book for readers of all ages, without dumbing down his prose. The best books-and I happily include The Wild Things on this list-manage to do both. The real question, when it comes to literature, is whether a particular author is interested in hustling us through a breakneck plot (a la Dan Brown) or investigating the internal lives of his or her creations. We get a writhing Technicolor landscape of carnivorous vines, lava beds, mini-tornadoes, mutant snakes, and, of course, the beasts themselves, a motley bundle of brawn and neuroses. "Once Max reaches the island of the beasts, Eggers goes for broke.
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