I think I'm probably supposed to like this book. It's "real" and a lot of it is geographicall based in areas I actually know (which was intriguing at first). Unfortunately, I found it to be pretty much a yawn. Not so bad that I couldn't keep reading it (hence two stars instead of one), but definitel...
While I was ho-hum on the storyline, I was in awe of the writing in this book. Franzen has a gift for dialogue. I actually didn't really buy the whole story about Walter and the Mountain Mining scenario, but did like the Environmentalism aspect and was kind of captivated by the political stance th...
Looks about and sighs in relief. At last the hype swarm has moved on to fresher pickings and I can now read this without pressure.First line - The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally - he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now - but...
A lot of reviewers here have put the issues I had with this book into words better than I ever could but it could still be a really good one (in spite of the generic characters and predictable shades-of-gray ambiguity) if it hadn't been for the fact that in a title declared by so many the elusive Gr...
I really, really, really wanted to like Freedom. It's like when your favourite club has made it to the final game of the World Cup, but deep down inside you know that Spain has the edge; then when Spain ends up winning, you're confronted with the grim satisfaction of knowing that you knew who would ...
About halfway through this book, I didn't like any of the characters very much. But by the end, although I'm not sure I would have liked any of them any more, I kind of loved them. The first half of the book dwells so much on the Berglunds' foibles, on the ways they drive each other away and grate o...
I loved Franzen's Corrections, but I hated Freedom. To be honest, I put it down by page 350, and I have NEVER not finished a book. There is no plot. It's 450 pages of whiny, vapid character development. I've never met characters that I absolutely did not care about. A friend of mine said, "Franz...
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