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A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Start date: January 5, 2015

Finish date: January 12, 2015

Why we're reading this: I chose this as a pulitzer prize winning book and because one of my cousins liked it.
[close] I chose this as a pulitzer prize winning book and because one of my cousins liked it.

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Apr 22, 2011 Ellen rated it did not like it

Shelves: audio-book, dnf

OK, I'm on the second to the last disk of this audio book and I just cannot go on. I don't know if it's the awful narrator which is setting my teeth on edge or the interconnected stories about people I can't keep straight and just don't care about. I cannot bear the thought of getting in my car and listening to another line of this book. I read a bunch of other reviews to try to figure out what I'm missing in this award winning novel, and most of them talk about the unique style. I've read lots ...more

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Dec 15, 2020 Jaime rated it liked it

Shelves: general-fiction, popsugar-2020, read-2020

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 ...more

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Jun 25, 2011 Stacy rated it liked it · review of another edition

I read this for my book club and it was good - the story is told by many different characters which normally distracts me. Very well written but i am pretty sure i missed all the metaphors...

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Jul 13, 2011 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011

The Pulitzer Prize people weren't wrong in awarding this book. The last few lines brought it all home. ...more

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Jun 30, 2011 Meg rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I am not really sure how this book won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Jul 23, 2011 Jamie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read, mymap

This is a book about six degrees of separation. It really makes you think of who you know now and will know later. Our lives are intertwined between the people we meet along the way.

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