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Dysfunctional Family & Loss Of Sales: Dude, What Were You Thinking About?

Date of Review:  Nov 4, 2001
The Bottom Line: An interesting book about an average, middle-class American family with all kinds of dirty laundry, fury, humor, division and unhappiness.
Review: If Jonathan Franzen's two previous novels brought him a lot of critical acclaim, without any doubt, The Corrections placed him on the literary map. In fact, he is the well-known and talented author of The Twenty-Seventh City" and Strong Motion which...
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  5.0

by: charles
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Universal themes such as family, pain,...
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Long descriptions
 
20 out of 20 people found this review helpful.

Domestic Discomfort

Date of Review:  May 26, 2002
The Bottom Line: A remarkably complex and dark novel that is at once a literary achievement to behold and an exhausting effort to read.
Review: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections is so painstakingly detailed, so meticulously crafted, and absurdly complex that it almost defies analysis. The task of writing such a novel seems so daunting that he must not have known what he had gotten himself...
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  4.0

by: gbl85
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Engaging, and skillfully constructed...
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Entirely too long, Franzen loves to...
 
213 out of 213 people found this review helpful.

Jonathan Franzen s Family Portrait: Trouble at the Table

Date of Review:  Oct 22, 2001
The Bottom Line: Read it and weep: If we really left it to Beaver, is this how far the nuclear family has crumbled? Do the sons of the fathers really know best?
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Let?s start with the fresh legend of The Corrections: author Jonathan Franzen wrote part of the Bible-sized novel while sitting in a room with soundproof walls and double-paned windows. Each day he arrived at the writing room, he would draw the...
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  4.0

by: Grouch
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Smart, funny, literate, accessible
Cons
Uneven, exhausting, too self-conscious
 
9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

Skillfully conceived, adeptly written

Date of Review:  Mar 30, 2008
The Bottom Line: In spite of a somewhat pessimistic view of the world, this novel is well-written and enjoyable.
Review: Jonathan Franzen s The Corrections is a skillfully conceived and adeptly written novel about a family, the Lambert s, who are navigating the new realities of modern society with mixed success. The patriarch and the matriarch, Alfred and Enid, still...
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  5.0

by: durlingheath
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Extremely well-written, pages turn...
Cons
Cynical view of contemporary society.
 
7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

Engagingly Realistic, yet Gloomy view of a Contemporary Family

Date of Review:  Nov 27, 2001
The Bottom Line: This is certainly a very worthy read. You do gain any new tools for living, or but you feel like you were told the full story, warts and all.
Review: It took me several days and much self coercion to get into this book. And what was especially disconcerting was that parts of it were excerpted in The New Yorker awhile ago, so I began to wonder if I had read it before. However, once I was into it,...
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  4.0

by: rmschrey
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A moving, believable and engaging story...
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Doesn't give the reader the happy...
 

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