"Eggers' strengths as a writer are real: his funny, pitch-perfect dialogue; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will's thoughts, and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions."
TIME
"Velocity achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry."
Newsweek
"There's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chi-town bounce, but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers' own."
Entertainment Weekly
"Eggers has... craft[ed] an entertaining and profoundly original tale."
The San Francisco Chronicle
"Is the book any good? Yes. It's terrific."
New York Daily News