The Corrections is well written and intelligent, but lacks a certain something. I think that for me there is a commonality in certain American contemporary writers, such as Michaal Chabon, Neal Stevenson, Phillip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don Dillio where there is a certain indulgently patronizing a...
I had a flatmate who referred to certain after school tv specials as "a pamphlet". I would have said that Franzen wrote a pseudo-intellectual "pamphlet" with the Corrections, if middle class neurosis had been worth discussing and diagnosing.
I love a good dysfunctional family epic, but THE CORRECTIONS made me nauseous. I had such high hopes after reading praise for this book from the authors of two of my most favorite dysfunctional family novels, Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides) and Michael Cunningham (Flesh and Blood). But while this ...
Bear in mind: Franzen will tell me that because I'm not American I don't get it. Both those things are absolutely fine with me.Just... needlessly complex, overly wordy, and how to explain...For example, I read something about the pharmaceutical industry etc, so I assume Franzen is making a statement...
It is unbelievable to think that I liked almost none of the characters in this book and yet I enjoyed the book itself. Some have referred to Franzen as a simplified DeLillo. If so, I might never give DeLillo another chance because why would I punish myself with his prose, when the more accessible Fr...
There were moments when I really enjoyed this book - his ability to define relationships, the lengths to which they are stretched, the expectations, the missteps (oh, so many of them!), the hope, and how even a functional, happy marriage need not be a healthy one. Then, there were moments when I wan...
This book is very well written. If you like that kind of thing, and I do, you may want to read this book just for the prose. Maybe you'll have an issue with word choice occasionally or something like that, but overall, the writing is superb (characterization, narrative, dialogue, voice...). I was pa...
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