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A Visit from the Goon Squad
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This book felt so transparent to me. I could feel her writing and thinking and smirking and patting herself on the back. Normally, I have no problem with that. I love arrogant people when the arrogance is earned. But these stories didn’t ring true for me. They felt staged and cute and show-offy. “Oh, look what I can do. I can write a chapter in the second person for no reason and another one in PowerPoint and another one in cyber-gibberish. And I can connect a bunch of simplistic but oh-so-quirky characters together and have them do unbelievable things because I created this faux world with the power of my mind (and caffeine) and you will love it because it includes every issue and theme that has ever existed in the history of the world while also being about nothing, which is to say, the beauty and tragedy of life but much more of the tragedy because that’s what wins awards.”
This book mostly merits a shrug.
This book mostly merits a shrug.
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February 26, 2011
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May 13, 2011
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May 16, 2011
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May 22, 2011 08:46AM
I wish I could like this review several more times.
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Coming from you, that's the best compliment ever.
Clever, check, Interesting characters, check
Wonderful prose, check
Individual moments of brilliance, but you're spot on. It just didn't work for me.
I couldn’t have described it better. 🤣😂Great review Nikki!
My thoughts 💯. I don't know Egan but I could see a privileged literature student writing and trying to be super dramatic and edgy to artificially make a very bland story deeper.
Tell me what you really think...bwah ha ha!
"This book mostly merits a shrug." - yes, thank you. perfect
Perfect description. Totally agree.
