Candy House

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Jennifer Egan: Candy House (2022, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published April 10, 2022 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4721-5093-6
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3 stars (1 review)

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reviewed The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

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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 …