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Why can't people can't enjoy a good book?, Jui 11 2002
Let me sum up for you every bad review you might read here: Wah wah, this book didn't fulfill my preconceived expectations. Wah wah, I only like stories where the characters are 100% likeable.My wife and I are reading this book right now and I can tell you this book will challenge you. Can't deal with that? Try another book. In fact, might as well forget books entirely and watch some more reruns of "Everybody Loves Raymond." Remember that episode when Debra gets PO'ed at Ray? Yeah, I love that one too. That's probably more your speed. For the rest of you. Take the Gary character, for example. When you first meet him, the battle lines on him between my wife & I are clearly drawn. I felt sorry for him. Now midway through the book neither of us can figure him out, if he's a jerk, or if Caroline is being a bee-eye-tee-you-know-what. The book is hilarious, too. You'll be reading along and suddenly be smacked in the face with Franzen's humor, and the best part is he doesn't warn you, draw attention to it, anything. Makes me wonder how many other jokes I've read through without catching them already. Great book. Buy it. No whiners!
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3 + 1 stars, Jui 11 2002
A cold, brilliant intelligence comes out of this book.
I think the corrections depicts VERY well a big part of our reality.
The author is NOT talking about a dysfunctional family: he's talking about our world! The thing is, the point of view is only one, and a rather pessimistic one. This is not pure escapism, of course. This sounded to me like an outlet from the author, like someone who's talking to you about his own problems (and that's not good) but he does it in a brilliant, funny way (and that's the good part for the reader).
It's always a matter of tastes, ok?
I'd give it 3 stars, but the writing is SO good. So, 4 stars.
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Contemporary Literature At Its Zenith, Jui 23 2003
You need two things in order to enjoy this novel: intelligence and a desire to read literature. If you are used to reading popular fiction with cardboard characters and neatly wrapped-up endings, skip The Corrections. On the other hand, if you meet the two criteria stated above, you are in for one of the most wonderful literary rides of your life. This is an exceptional, perhaps important, novel. The characters and plot are as interesting as one could hope for, and more importantly, they are as REAL as you will find in a contemporary novel. As the New York Review of Books sentence on the cover says, "You will laugh, wince, graon, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place." I'd read Franzen's prior works of fiction and found them to be pretty good, but in The Corrections, Franzen's prose transcends the ordinary to such an extent that it literally left me breathless at times. And he pulls this off while layering plots that had me turning pages into the wee hours of the morning.As for Jane Smiley, she chooses political correctness over literary value--her roundly and soundly criticized article in Harper's magazine alone more than proves that. Once you get into the lives of the characters in The Corrections, you won't be able to put the book down. It is contemporary literature at its zenith.
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