マリオ (Mario Menti)Oct 26, 2023
I think Jennifer Egan was already one of my top 5 (at least) favourite authors of all time, but "The Candy House" is just breathtakingly brilliant. The imagination behind this book is amazing - it's madly inventive, surprising, covering a huge breadth of experiences, but most of all it's enormous fun.
This highlighted sentence relates to the music business, but of course is not limited to it.
#JenniferEgan #TheCandyHouse
マリオ (Mario Menti)Oct 23, 2023

Finally getting around to Jennifer Egan's latest, "The Candy House", a sort-of sequel to "A Visit From the Goon Squad", but set in tech rather than music circles, centering around authenticity, memory, and the allure of new technology.
And it's already (unsurprisingly) brilliant, who else comes up with a term like "word casing"!

#JenniferEgan #TheCandyHouse

Cristina Garcia LeonDec 20, 2022
The #tournamentofbooks short list is out. #TheCandyHouse by Jennifer Egan didn't make it. The tournament hasn't started yet and I'm already disappointed. #books #booknerd #BookNerdsUnite
Let's go to the 3DBB.Nov 23, 2022
NYJ, in audience when Adam West, as Batman, played Shea Stadium, all my surviving family think arguing at Thanksgiving dinner is disruptive. #tourists #HudsonRiverPark #TheLadyEve #JimBackus #AlanArkin #PeterFalk #eastcoastoysters #GlobalEntry #insulin #jellybelly #ThatFatalGlassOfBeer #RichardLester #JacquesTourneur #DonSiegel #ThePajamaGame #TheTallT #BobNewhart #Highway61Revisited #Roadrunner #AMRadio #WMCAGoodGuys #Provence #Osaka #TheCandyHouse #BarchesterTowers #BroadwayDannyRose
Lieke SmitsNov 14, 2022

Yesterday I finished #TheCandyHouse by #JenniferEgan. It’s an almost dizzying, intricate novel with chapters from different POVs and in different styles. The title refers to the trap that is the candy house in Hansel and Gretel: if it seems like you’re getting something for free that’s too good to be true, you’ll probably have to pay at some point. The price of social media is your privacy.

#books #bookstodon #reading