Pros: Smart, funny, literate, accessible Cons: Uneven, exhausting, too self-conscious
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...
Pros: Well written passages, drawing vivid visual images. Cons: Disturbing themes. Certain sections laborious to read.
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Corrections can mean many things. From the gentle loving guidance of a child to harsh punitive lessons, marking of mistakes on school papers, stock markets taking a dip or plunge, inner voices which urge us...
Pros: A LITTLE humor, stylish, but impressively long, with well constructed sentences. Cons: Immortalizes mediocrity
I finished this book after what felt like months of hard wading through a swampy mess of mediocrity, to find the few passages worth reading. I pat myself on the back for getting through it but I am looking at the book, with a sour expression on my face....
Pros: Universal themes such as family, pain, celebration, success, divorce and failure Cons: Long descriptions
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...
Pros: Truly insightful, mercilessly satiric, and endlessly readable Cons: The O-Factor may still bother some (although I got over it, so you might too)
I wonder if you had the same first encounter with "The Corrections" that I had. Weeks of hearing its praises sung by respected reviewers from coast-to-coast. An almost universal concurrence that if this wasn't indeed the Great American Novel, than at...
Pros: Vivid characters and humor punctuates this family's life stories and misguided adventures. Cons: Descriptive to a tedious degree at times.
Alfred and Enid Lambert have three grown children. These children have lives of their own, without a doubt, and sees each other as living the dream much better than the other. Ha!
Just when you think oldest, Gary, has it made with the...
Pros: Engaging, and skillfully constructed story with memorable characters. Cons: Entirely too long, Franzen loves to listen to himself write.
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 into...
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 ...
Pros: Good strong writing with believable characters and all too convincing family situations. Cons: A bit long and certainly depressing. This is not carefree pleasure reading!
The Corrections is indeed a powerful novel of family, relationships, disfunction, and discontent. There is also humor, if sometimes, black humor, and there are realistic situations that almost any family can identify with. Is it a good read? Yes...
Pros: Funny, pungent, and perceptive. More amusing for seniors than younger adults. Cons: A little bitter for some people and not for the very young.
I've spent some time considering my attitude toward this book. From a contemporary's perspective of Alfred and Enid, the parents in this dysfunctional family it is a very funny book. No one need be ashamed of belonging to a dysfunctional family, every...
Pros: A moving, believable and engaging story of an interesting family Cons: Doesn't give the reader the happy scooby-doo ending they might want
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, I...
Pros: Interesting themes: guilt, marriage, sibling rivalry, parent-adult children conflict Cons: Boring story, tedious to read,
I am so glad I did not spend my money on this book, borrowed it from the public library. This was really tedious to read. There were too many details to read. Also I did not find the conversation between boring, cynical Alfred and his bodily wastes...
Great, Entertaining, and Frightening Book! by compelled1 ,Apr 30 '05
Pros: Interesting, Enlightening, Refreshingly Pessimistic. Cons: Sometimes slow reading.
The Corrections is an interesting peek into the life of 5 mid-western family members. While the three children find eccentrically normal lives in the northwest, the parents are battling a new era in their own lives--old age. This book is extremely interesting in that it portrays the feelings, and interactions between each family member.
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