This book started a little slow, and dragged at the beginning. It seemed kind of like any other &quot;punk rock&quot; &quot;music biz&quot; kind of story. I didn't bond with the characters and the storyline was, well, nothing seemed to ever happen. 1/3 of the way in, I started to really like it but ...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/148935637">more...</a> (Posted on 2/18/11)

I read this thing in one day, mostly on the plane back from AWP. Honestly, my favorite chapter was the one that originally appeared in the New Yorker, but I found several other parts of the book just as engaging. I think Jennifer Egan is a very talented writer. She might not be as much of a prose...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/146667941">more...</a> (Posted on 2/7/11)

This book was an enjoyable read but not life changing. It's a contemporary story of contemporary
<br/>issues - mostly regarding the dreams of youth and how life plays out.
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<br/>Egan plays a lot with narrative and time. It's really a collection of short stories intertwined
<br/>by the people, ...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/127544291">more...</a> (Posted on 1/23/11)

Spoiler alert: You will get old. You will die. Things will never be like they are right now. And yet, how things are right now will determine how they are in the future. This is so.<br/><br/>The &quot;goon&quot; in the title of this book is time. It opens with a quote from Proust, the poet laure...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/95456142">more...</a> (Posted on 1/21/11)

I’ve always been a little too fond of wordplay, so a sign I saw as a kid that said, “Time wounds all heels” stuck with me.* Well, in Egan’s deftly constructed narrative, time is a goon. She keeps the pace lively by hopping from person to person, with each chapter featuring not only a new point-of-...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/142281422">more...</a> (Posted on 1/20/11)

Reading this book is like going into the future and eavesdropping on a conversation between two old friends who haven’t seen each other in years:
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<br/><em>“Remember Bernie Salazar?”
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<br/>“Sure. He was that record producer who used to put the gold flakes in his coffee. Didn’t he used to be ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/131026201">more...</a> (Posted on 1/14/11)

hell's bells. believe this hype.
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<br/>this book is the saddest, truest, wisest book i have ever read in a single day. which is not to belittle it - my tear-assing through it is because i did not want to stop reading it and resented any interruption that tried to get in my way. i am someone who...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/139746847">more...</a> (Posted on 1/13/11)

I was going to post a really cool review of this, post-dated from the year 202X, but I couldn't get Goodreads to display my PowerPoint presentation correctly*.
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<br/><em>*This is a lie. I did not write a PowerPoint book review because I:
<br/>am lazy/am not that clever/don't have PowerPoint. Or is ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/106139499">more...</a> (Posted on 1/13/11)

Probably not Egan's fault that I didn't love this one -- I'm starting to think it's impossible for me to get behind any novel with this kind of pointillist structure. Maybe I'm more aesthetically conservative than I thought I was, because this year I've read two ecstatically praised novels that use ...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/117363880">more...</a> (Posted on 1/13/11)

I enjoyed this book though, for reasons I can't recall, I expected a novel rather than a collection of linked stories. Also, I kept having a feeling of deja vu, or deja read I guess, which after finishing the book led me to check out the author's website where I discovered that some segments were pr...<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/139740733">more...</a> (Posted on 1/10/11)