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Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Sometimes when people asked Eileen Holland if she had any brothers or sisters, she had to think for a moment. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Does the earth move for you?,
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This review is from: Strong Motion: A Novel (Paperback)
Great things about this novel include:- The central idea -- both the concept of earthquakes in the Boston area, and the concept of how they might have been caused. The weaknesses: The weaknesses -- in particular, the events leading up to Louis and Renee's separation halfway through the book -- made me so impatient that I actually gave up reading it for a while. But I'm very glad I returned to it. A lot of the most memorable passages are in the second half, there's a great sense of gathering apocalypse and all the pleasures of a well-constructed thriller, and it ends on an emotional high that prefigures, but doesn't quite match, that at the end of The Corrections. Definitely worth a read, particularly if (by sheer coincidence) you live on the same street as the hero...
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Disappointing,
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This review is from: Strong Motion: A Novel (Paperback)
I love Jonathan Franzen's work, especially The Twenty Seventh City, which is just brilliant. The Corrections is pretty good too. But I am terriby disappointed by his second novel, Strong Motion. It is murky, implausible, pointless, and devoid of admirable characters, moving sentiments or delightful plot twists. Don't waste your money.
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Better than The Corrections,
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This review is from: Strong Motion: A Novel (Paperback)
I picked up Strong Motion after enjoying Franzen's The Corrections. The story lines in this novel are more complexly layered than those in The Corrections, but also more tightly organized. Most notably, in stark contrast to The Corrections, Franzen does not send us off to the Baltics to experience needless side stories. Every overlapping and interwoven piece of text is important to the rest of the novel. Brief decriptions of the plot do not do the book justice, because they come off as unbelievable, even gimmicky. While Franzen does take bold risks with this story and his characters, this novel is so well crafted that I did not even pause to consider whether a particular plot twist was plausible. Like all good fiction, the unreal becomes real as the story unfolds. With rich, conflicted characters and smart, penetrating observations of American society, Franzen's Strong Motion is a master work. It is easy to see why there was such a buzz around the release of The Corrections: Franzen is one of the best contemporary American literary fiction has to offer.
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