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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is reminding me that I put down Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad after getting about halfway, and apparently have not picked it up for two weeks.  The writing itself is reasonably compelling, but the story/stories circle around the music industry/ musicians, which, in perhaps an unpopular opinion, I just find incredibly tiresome as a subject for fiction. The characters are predictably eff'd up and self-regarding.  50-50 on whether I continue.

But put me in the pro-Tom Lake camp, 8/10, though probably at least 1 point is due to Meryl Streep since (I did it on audiobook).

Also about halfway through Haidt's Anxious Generation (why online childhood is so bad for mental health). It's fine, and I think the minor political controversy around the book is basically all beside the point (of the book).  It is just that Hari's Stolen Focus already did the subject and did it (much) better...[/quote]

Goodness- A Visit from the Goon Squad is one of my all-time favorites. If you like that, I recommend Modern Lovers. Also Jennifer Egans other books are good but not as good as goon squad.[/quote]

I read A Visit from the Goon Squad last month. I thought it was a solid, entertaining book, but nothing that moved me. Nothing about it was very original. [/quote]

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