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Dan Bittner, Jennifer Egan, George Newbern, Rebecca Lowman, Nicole Lewis, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Michael Boatman, Danny Campbell, Thomas Sadoski, Colin Donnell, Griffin Newman, Jackie Sanders, Lucy Liu, Christian Barillas, Tara Lynne Barr, Alex Allwine, Emily Tremaine, Kyle Beltran, Chris Henry Coffey, Ali Andre Ali, Corey Brill, Gibson Frazier, Allison Light, Travis Tonn: The Candy House (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Simon & Schuster Audio)

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Published April 5, 2022 by Simon & Schuster Audio.

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978-1-7971-2840-5
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3 stars (3 reviews)

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reviewed The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

Didn't like it

3 stars

I liked the concept of uploading your memories to the internet, and having corporate incentives to share them. . However, this entire book felt like an introduction. New characters and new events, often in different time periods every chapter. They did become somewhat intertwined, but not in a way where I felt it all came together. At the end I didn't feel like I had any real sense of any of the characters or why they did the things they did. I also didn't find that it really stimulated my thinking at all about what a world where many uploaded their memories to the internet for all to see would be like. It was all just too disconnected. I have not read the first book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, where many of these characters were first introduced. Perhaps that would have helped, but I wouldn't recommend it as …

good writing can save a lot

4 stars

A wild collection of short stories rubbing shoulders with each other and The Goon Squad (which I barely remember, but enjoyed) in a near sci-fi future. Tightrope between failing to cohere, falling from believability or originality, and engrossing oddities of character after character, I liked too many of these to complain.