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Originally Posted by krastian
How did you like it? I'm like 300 pages in and gotta say that I liked The Corrections more....a bit of a disappointment, honestly. Franzen namedropping bands seemed really lame to me and I really don't give a shit about the characters.
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Not that you were asking me but... I was quite disappointed with Freedom, but I wonder if perhaps some of what Franzen did was ironic (e.g. the name dropping, the earnest environmentalism, etc) or designed to make us conscious of how uncomfortable we get when things are treated earnestly as opposed to ironically. I'm not sure, I was quite confused after reading it, as it just left a completely different (kind of blank) impression compared with The Corrections.
And I didn't really care for the characters either.