I really wanted to like this book. I heard the author interviewed and thought it sounded great but the reality of the book didn't stand up for me. Many friends and people I respect loved this book but I just couldn't get through it. (Though I read more than half of it.)
At about 1/10th of the way in I'm still not 100% committed to it... I get enough gossip and drama without having to read about it too, but we'll see how it goes.... A little better than half way through and...It's too much for me. There is just so much gratuitous in this book. I don't get it. I'm em...
The Corrections was a bleak novel about unhappy, unlikable people. So is Freedom. I was not in the mood for Freedom; I didn’t think I was going to like it and I didn’t. That doesn’t mean it is not a good novel, possibly even a great novel. I just was not in the mood for a huge book filled with disfu...
I'm chiming in on this one because when a book makes it this big for allegedly literary reasons and you think it's as bad as I do, I think you should say so (assuming you're a serious reader, and I am).Before proceeding I'll note that I don't always agree with critic B. R. Myers. I don't agree with ...
I'm chiming in on this one because when a book makes it this big for allegedly literary reasons and you think it's as bad as I do, I think you should say so (assuming you're a serious reader, and I am).Before proceeding I'll note that I don't always agree with critic B. R. Myers. I don't agree with ...
I asked Jessica Turner why Freedom got such bad reviews, and she knew exactly why!"Because people are armchair critics and all-around assholes, trying to impress other goodreads users with their undergraduate level literary criticism skills."So there you go. This book was amazing. Don't listen to th...
At the midway point in this book, all I can say about it is that it is non-stop about dysfunction. All of the characters are weak people who succumb to their basest instincts regardless of the people that they take down with themselves. They are drunks, womanizers, vandals, upstarts, disobedient and...
Ugh. I can't believe I wasted a good part of my weekend reading this. I kept waiting to like the charcters or at least to warm up to them. Didn't happen.
Everyone seems to have a lot to say about Freedom. Love it. Hate it. I, however, do not have much to say. It was okay. There were sections I loved (Patty's "Autobiography"; Katz' interview) and parts I hated (anything focusing on Joey, aka the next Holden Caulfield; the Berglund family history)...
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