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42 hours of talk and 120 hours of listing to music

making this a festive piece

Beach offers a revelatory glimpse into her own life alongside a broader cultural criticism of the world today

CANDY HOUSE 6-33-HD40H1AH * BUQU Power Poof USBThe 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,