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“The Candy House” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. It’s 2010. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—that allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets.

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ennifer Egan takes it to the next step and creates a novel where people can save their memories. It is called a Mandala Cube, and the concept is “own your unconscious.” For example, one can keep unconscious thoughts and memories for use after a traumatic brain injury or restore losses due to Alzheimer’s or other diseases. But, as with most inventions, there are unintended consequences. The collective unconscious, Jenifer Egan says, is akin to invasive omniscience.Each chapter is a standalone episode told in a different voice. It is almost impossible to keep track of all of the characters that play a role in this cautionary tale. However, the relationships among many of the characters become apparent as the novel progresses. There are eluders in opposition to those who support the widespread sharing of memories in a searchable, Facebook-like fashion. Then there is the Mondrian, a network of role-playing proxies at odds with Mandala cube. And, as expected, there is government use of the new technologies and lots of luring of strangers and temptations to enter the metaphoric Candy House of the title.