Remembered enjoying A Visit from the Goon Squad when it first came out, and always keen to get my hands on 'literary' treatments of technology and/or the future, but while the self-contained chapters, here, often worked well (as short stories?), the impact of the novel as a whole was limp and flat, muted by a lack of focus. Effectively-written characters and detailing, but ultimately just a heap of narrative (however engaging), with little light and shade, and a scattershot focus.