AVFTGS: Chapters 8 (Selling the General) through 11 (Goodbye, My Love)

[Melissa_W Moderator]

Please use this thread for discussion of Chapters 8 through 11 of A VIsit From the Goon Squad.

[Fozzie]

I did not like chapters 8 and 9, Selling the General and Forty-Minute Lunch:  Kitty Jackson Opens Up About Love, Fame, and Nixon!  I thought the whole idea of chapter 8 seemed implausible.  I am not big on keeping up with what is going on in stars' lives, so I think that is why I didn't have much interest in chapter 9.  At least we did find out what really happened between Jules and Kitty in the park.  This book requires a careful reading so that you can piece things together.

Chapters 11 and 12 were back to what I had come to expect from the book --- emotion filled stories.

[Peppermill]

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Fozzie wrote:

I did not like chapters 8 and 9, Selling the General and Forty-Minute Lunch:  Kitty Jackson Opens Up About Love, Fame, and Nixon!  I thought the whole idea of chapter 8 seemed implausible.  I am not big on keeping up with what is going on in stars' lives, so I think that is why I didn't have much interest in chapter 9.  At least we did find out what really happened between Jules and Kitty in the park.  This book requires a careful reading so that you can piece things together.

Chapters 11 and 12 were back to what I had come to expect from the book --- emotion filled stories.

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I actually enjoyed the crazy General story for its very implausibility -- good word for it, Laura!  Somehow, I could just imagine it happening, or at least a TV show depicting such!  But, I had trouble at about this point with the whole book hanging together.

[Fozzie]

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Peppermill wrote:

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Fozzie wrote:

I did not like chapters 8 and 9, Selling the General and Forty-Minute Lunch:  Kitty Jackson Opens Up About Love, Fame, and Nixon!  I thought the whole idea of chapter 8 seemed implausible.  I am not big on keeping up with what is going on in stars' lives, so I think that is why I didn't have much interest in chapter 9.  At least we did find out what really happened between Jules and Kitty in the park.  This book requires a careful reading so that you can piece things together.

Chapters 11 and 12 were back to what I had come to expect from the book --- emotion filled stories.

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I actually enjoyed the crazy General story for its very implausibility -- good word for it, Laura!  Somehow, I could just imagine it happening, or at least a TV show depicting such!  But, I had trouble at about this point with the whole book hanging together.

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Maybe I should suspend belief on the General story and frame it that way!  LOL!

I completely agree with your comment about wondering how the whole book fits together at this point.  I did wonder where it was going.  I still think these two chapters didn't really fit as well as the rest of them did.