Epic American family saga of a moderately dysfunctional family, loosely based around whether they will return to the family home for one last Christmas together. Some of the shifts from one section/viewpoint/situation to another take a bit longer to settle into than others, and the Lithuanian plotli...
Very, very good book. Tough to get through the mental deterioration of Al at the end, but still an incredibly interesting view of family and our expectations of them.
Franzen makes a really clear and realistic [I suppose:] portrait of the XX century American family. He portrays interesting and funny characters, despite the drama they carry. Though funny, I didn’t smile too much reading this book, maybe I was struck by the fact that anybody can easily relate to on...
Ick. This book was long, dry and boring. It's an account of a family's history, through the various melodramas, struggles and breakdowns. The narrative shifted between various family members, but it jumped back and forth between the all too much. I'd just get into one character's head and then, ...
The author isexcellent at copying a paint-by-numbers picture onto another piece of paperand painting in each part the right color. None of the numbers show. Butwhen you look at the picture, you know somehow that it was taken fromsomewhere, that it wasn't drawn from the heart.Does that make any sense...
The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen was a bookclub read and one of those books that when you pick it up you groan and say I am not going to like this one. Well!! never judge a book by its cover (and its not a very appealing cover) its Blurb ( is pretty depressing) or the first 50 pages (had me scr...
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