If you take the opportunity to read Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad, I recommend giving it a the proper time and attention. It is a wonderful, fractured tapestry, linking a host of perspectives over a period over half a century without losing it's intimacy. In a way, it could be seen as ...
A hodgepodge of stories in various forms involving various characters. Some of the stories were more interesting for me (e.g. Sasha's) compared to others (Scotty's, Lou's, Jules'). I'm not sure if I got The Whole Point. Or maybe The Pause in Rock and Roll Songs is the point.
Wanted to hate this. Couldn't.It got to me despite myself, despite a constant low-level annoyance with the writing style, which is not bad – not at all, it's good – but good in a sort of neat, creative-writing-workshop way (‘She'd glimpsed the wallet, tender and overripe as a peach’; ‘Sasha felt her...
I read this for a creative writing course at university and while I liked aspects of it, overall it just wasn't working for me. All of the plot-lines are quite depressing (which probably means they're realistic) but I just couldn't empathize with the characters.
I'll admit to some anxiety before starting this book. I'm not entirely sure reading reviews before grabbing a classic is a good idea. the #8 reviewer in Australia, Ian Graye, did one of the legendary youtube music video reviews for this book, as he did for, was it, Ghostwritten. associated other Mit...
This book is really really good. The style is kind of experimental: the book consists of 13 chapters that could be read as individual short stories but which in fact form one novel. Each of the stories is told from a different character's perspective. The stories often aren't told chronologically an...
I started out really liking this book. The narrative concept (chapter one is about person A and mentions person B, chapter two is about person B and mentions person C, and so on...) is one I have toyed with in the past and was kind of disappointed that someone else has also thought of it. But that...
On second thought, I've decided to replace the text of this review with an animated gif, partly because I hear that's what the kids are doing these days (again?) and partly because this is what I was saying anyway. Here you go.
Time, you old Gypsy Man,Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?- Ralph Hodgson“Time’s a goon, right?”- Bosco, a character from A Visit from the Goon SquadA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is a unique book which defies analysis, probably because it breaks all conventions ...
For some reason this book just didn't work with me right now. I thought the very beginning was interesting but I was forcing myself to read the first 60 pages and eventually decided I wasn't in the mood.Might come back to this at some point but for now I will list it as abandoned.
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