On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill, recently divorced and fired, Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old high school student Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on our country's dumbest, most irritating reality show and phony celebrities.

"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...