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I pick up a lot of books without remembering what they are supposed to be about, so I was surprised to find that this was less of a narrative novel than it was a collection of loosely-connected short stories about music executive Bennie Salazar and the people in his orbit (and sometimes their orbits). I thought it was well written enough to keep me reading through the end, but I can't say that it spoke to me or that it will stick with me. Or even that it made me eager to pick up another book by
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I don't know how I missed reading this years ago, but I finally read it since I heard there was some overlap between this and Egan's new book Candy House. The style seems a little cutesy now that I've read so many copycats, but I loved meeting these deeply flawed characters and seeing their stories revealed at different points in their lives.
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Obviously Egan is a skilled writer, but this novel was overly complicated, and the sprawled storylines detracted instead of added. I put it down mid-way when it got to be too much and then the momentum was lost. Maybe if that hadn't happened, or I was reading this in a lit class, I would have seen the brilliance to the complexity.
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