Jenny (Reading Envy)'s Reviews > A Visit from the Goon Squad

Half the time I didn't know who was telling the story since the narrator shifted each chapter, heck, half the time I didn't know what decade I was in. But I didn't mind. That was part of the journey. I loved the related characters moving in and out of the lives of two messy people, and how the styles shifted along with the characters. I journeyed from somewhat typical narrative to a David Foster Wallace-esque chapter from an imprisoned journalist, to a middleschooler telling a story through a slide journal, and I was completely absorbed.

It isn't the cheeriest of messages. You get old, things don't always work out, the glory days are past, not just for the individual characters but for the society that used to make it possible for a janitor to become a rock star. But I enjoyed it regardless.