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pamela1221 's review for:
The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
I would never recommend anyone read Jennifer Egan I think that if they stumble across her books they will either like them or not. I read this as my husband got it from the digital library and he had read a couple of her others and while I remember him complaining about her style of writing he has now read 3 of her books.
I on the other hand can safely say that I will never read another one of her books, don’t get me wrong she is an excellent writer but what you have in The Candy House is a series of chapters where the characters are connected to each other, pretty much like how they say everyone is 6 degrees from Kevin Bacon and to say they were messed up would be a bit of an understatement. The chapters take place in the past, present and future. They are as far from a cohesive story as you can possibly get and while I say that, the only point I could see with this book was that it is glaringly obvious where we will eventually end up regarding the internet and social media with only select few caring about their privacy, it also has just as many chapters involving the use of drugs, the characters relationships with drugs and the messed up relationships these characters have with family that led them to drugs…..so maybe its about that too.
I read several chapters and I am going to say I was not alone in saying this when I declared at the end of it. ‘What the hell was that about?‘. I also told my husband as I got to the end of the book that maybe you had to be high in order to truly get this book.
Days after reading it I’m still thinking about what the heck it was about. 2.5 stars because of Alfred’s chapter.
I on the other hand can safely say that I will never read another one of her books, don’t get me wrong she is an excellent writer but what you have in The Candy House is a series of chapters where the characters are connected to each other, pretty much like how they say everyone is 6 degrees from Kevin Bacon and to say they were messed up would be a bit of an understatement. The chapters take place in the past, present and future. They are as far from a cohesive story as you can possibly get and while I say that, the only point I could see with this book was that it is glaringly obvious where we will eventually end up regarding the internet and social media with only select few caring about their privacy, it also has just as many chapters involving the use of drugs, the characters relationships with drugs and the messed up relationships these characters have with family that led them to drugs…..so maybe its about that too.
I read several chapters and I am going to say I was not alone in saying this when I declared at the end of it. ‘What the hell was that about?‘. I also told my husband as I got to the end of the book that maybe you had to be high in order to truly get this book.
Days after reading it I’m still thinking about what the heck it was about. 2.5 stars because of Alfred’s chapter.