Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 22:16     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Who?
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 22:15     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Anonymous wrote:I couldn't finish the Corrections because I found all of the characters to be so unlikable.


+1
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 22:11     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Only read Freedom and mostly thought it suuuuuucked.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 13:10     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
NO.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 13:09     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just started this one too because of this thread (had it on my night stand forever and never got around to reading it). I wasn't expecting it to be so funny! I literally laughed out loud at least 4-5 times in the first two chapters. That is rare. I think he is the real deal.


Thanks for the input Jonathan! Hope the fetish (you know what I mean) is under control.


This could have been me after the first few chapters, laughing out loud. Let's wait to see what she thinks after she's plowed through the middle and end.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 10:35     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Anonymous wrote:This is the book I quit Book of the Month club over-when a book devotes a chapter to someone having a conversation with their poop, it is time to abandon the new crap and return to the classics.


I assume you are no fan of Thomas Pynchon, too.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 10:31     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Anonymous wrote:I liked his writing but I can't get over how misanthropic he is. He obviously contemptuous of humanity.


Agree 100%. He's just so mean about his Midwestern family.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 10:19     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Anonymous wrote:I just started this one too because of this thread (had it on my night stand forever and never got around to reading it). I wasn't expecting it to be so funny! I literally laughed out loud at least 4-5 times in the first two chapters. That is rare. I think he is the real deal.


I loved it too. I look forward to reading it again.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2014 10:12     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
I thought The Corrections was good. I haven't got all the way through Freedom yet.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2014 08:29     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Anonymous wrote:I just started this one too because of this thread (had it on my night stand forever and never got around to reading it). I wasn't expecting it to be so funny! I literally laughed out loud at least 4-5 times in the first two chapters. That is rare. I think he is the real deal.


Thanks for the input Jonathan! Hope the fetish (you know what I mean) is under control.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2014 08:26     Subject: Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
I just started this one too because of this thread (had it on my night stand forever and never got around to reading it). I wasn't expecting it to be so funny! I literally laughed out loud at least 4-5 times in the first two chapters. That is rare. I think he is the real deal.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2014 14:17     Subject: Re:Do you like Jonathan Franzen?
Wow, I loved the Corrections. Hope this is not a spoiler-- stop reading if you haven't read it and intend to... but the way the lives flipped at the end between the brother who couldn't finish anything (including the corrections to his manuscript) and the supposedly successful brother. Coming from a dysfunctional family the dialogue was so realistic and at times so funny/sad, it was a very powerful read.