A Visit from the Goon Squad

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  Note: This novel was WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2010, in addition to being WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. “A dog barking hoarsely. The lowing of trucks over bridge ... (read full critics)

  marywhipplereviews published on Fri, 23 Dec 2011

• A Visit from the Goon Squad

  “It is in ourselves that we should seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.” This epigraph, from In Search of Lost Time, is well chosen, because A Visit from the Goon Squad is Proustian in its ambitions—not just in its t ... (read full critics)

  raintaxi published on Thu, 15 Sep 2011

13 Reviews

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  A little bit of a burden, actually. Maybe because I was reading other books in the meantime or maybe because english is not my native language, I kept on confusing characters and connecting the links between the different stories only ages afterwards. Appreciated it a little more in the last pages. ... (continue)

  A little bit of a burden, actually. Maybe because I was reading other books in the meantime or maybe because english is not my native language, I kept on confusing characters and connecting the links between the different stories only ages afterwards. Appreciated it a little more in the last pages. BUT I remember the bookshop guy telling me that this book was AMAZING AND FUNNY.. Well, none of the above. I think they're putting so much effort in trying to sell as many copies as possible(bought in promotion, indeed).

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  stefania♡ said on Aug 22, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  I almost feel like I need to read this book again straight away - there were so many characters that unless you read it in one sitting you will end up feeling a little confused by it all. That aside, I really enjoyed this book.

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  Claire said on Jul 19, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  2/9 - not audacious nor extrodinary but I will give it…"expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos". I liked it but in sort of a strange way..

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  Psc said on Mar 28, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Because he never could quite forget that every byte of information he'd posted online (favorite color, vegetable, sexual position) was stored in the database of multinationals who swore they would never, ever use it - that he was owned, in other words, having sold himself unthinkingly at the very po ... (continue)

  Because he never could quite forget that every byte of information he'd posted online (favorite color, vegetable, sexual position) was stored in the database of multinationals who swore they would never, ever use it - that he was owned, in other words, having sold himself unthinkingly at the very point in his life when he'd felt most subversive?

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  Maurizio (videogioco) said on May 13, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Too much madness kills the madness

  There were two chapters I really enjoyed in this book: chapter 4 - Safari, which I'd read in The New Yorker, not realising it was part of a novel, and chapter 12 - Great Rock and Roll Pauses, written in the form of a Powerpoint presentation, which I thought very clever and amusing in a poignant sort ... (continue)

  There were two chapters I really enjoyed in this book: chapter 4 - Safari, which I'd read in The New Yorker, not realising it was part of a novel, and chapter 12 - Great Rock and Roll Pauses, written in the form of a Powerpoint presentation, which I thought very clever and amusing in a poignant sort of way. But basically, I would have been content with those two chapters as stand-alone short stories.

  I found the non-linear story telling, which I usually enjoy, over the top and a distraction to the stories told. It's a shame, because I thought the book had a lot going for it, but that it kind of lost the plot, as it were, as it went madly along.

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  Hélène Wilkinson said on Apr 1, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  This book made me feel powerful over the characters and the story

  This is what I wrote in anobii. To go to anobii, click the following link: If you want to read my comentary in my Spanish blog, click here: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2012/03/visit-from-…
  I loved this writer's style. This book is a compound of little tales that c ... (continue)

  This is what I wrote in anobii. To go to anobii, click the following link: If you want to read my comentary in my Spanish blog, click here: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2012/03/visit-from-…
  I loved this writer's style. This book is a compound of little tales that can be read in a complete independent way, and in any order; and in spite of that, the book would never loose its sense. The message is there for us readers to build with the writer, and that is the major virtue of a artistic creator: the act of building with their audience. I loved this book because it is very well written, and uses the reader as part of the "creative team" of the story. It is a complete cycle in time: from half a century ago, to half a century in the future. It depicts anecdotes of different characters, and with that, it gives us the power to mold their fates. I felt very powerful while I read it, and I think that is what I liked the most.

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  ariadna73 said on Mar 4, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 1849019916
• ISBN-13: 9781849019910
• Publisher: Corsair
• Pub date: Nov 01, 2011
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
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