You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
hettie_ethel 's review for:
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
I have to admit upfront that the only reason that I read this was that it fulfilled part of a reading challenge and was available at my local library. It was a bonus that it was part of the goodreads bookclub.
I really did not like the first couple of chapters and almost gave up. I started to enjoy the book only from chapter 4. This was probably one of my favourite chapters. I liked the setting and the way you found out what was going to happen to a certain character during the rest of their life. Almost like the narrator started rambling and then had to pull themselves back to the storyline.
Another favourite chapter was the powerpoint one. I wondered exactly how it would convey the story but it did extremely well. It is also a very interesting way of doing a diary.
My interest in the book varied throughout from actually enjoying it, through tolerating it all the way through to hating it. It is definitely not a book that I would have chosen myself and it certainly did not live up to the quotes that are written all over my copy of the book. Moving and life enhancing it was not.
I really did not like the first couple of chapters and almost gave up. I started to enjoy the book only from chapter 4. This was probably one of my favourite chapters. I liked the setting and the way you found out what was going to happen to a certain character during the rest of their life. Almost like the narrator started rambling and then had to pull themselves back to the storyline.
Another favourite chapter was the powerpoint one. I wondered exactly how it would convey the story but it did extremely well. It is also a very interesting way of doing a diary.
My interest in the book varied throughout from actually enjoying it, through tolerating it all the way through to hating it. It is definitely not a book that I would have chosen myself and it certainly did not live up to the quotes that are written all over my copy of the book. Moving and life enhancing it was not.