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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

Pros
Smart, funny, literate, accessible
Cons
Uneven, exhausting, too self-conscious
 
121 out of 121 people found this review helpful.

Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - missed opportunities

Date of Review:  Oct 29, 2001
The Bottom Line: Not literature for the masses. Franzen draws achingly real pictures of a family needing corrections. Contains some disturbing themes and is for adults only.
Review: ~=~ Ch Ch Ch Changes... ~=~

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...
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  4.0

by: nwinston
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Well written passages, drawing vivid...
Cons
Disturbing themes. Certain sections...
 
52 out of 52 people found this review helpful.

Jonathan Franzen?s THE CORRECTIONS -2001

Date of Review:  May 21, 2003
The Bottom Line: No matter how you dress it, or praise it, this is a pointless and depressing story, peopled by shallow and unpleasant people.
Review: 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...
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  2.0

by: artbyjude
Recommended to buy: No

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A LITTLE humor, stylish, but...
Cons
Immortalizes mediocrity
 
50 out of 50 people found this review helpful.

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,...
Cons
Long descriptions
 
37 out of 37 people found this review helpful.

Not 'The Great American Novel', But Pretty Great Nonetheless: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

Date of Review:  Aug 24, 2002
The Bottom Line: A challenging read that lives up to the hype. That's as good a bottom line as I can think of.
Review: 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...
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  5.0

by: mfunk75
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Truly insightful, mercilessly satiric,...
Cons
The O-Factor may still bother some...
 
25 out of 25 people found this review helpful.

Correct Me If I'm Wrong, But...

Date of Review:  Mar 23, 2003
The Bottom Line: If I could, I'd give it zero stars if I were to accurately rate this coma-inducer.
Review: I'm in the minority here. I hated Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections for a number of reasons:

1. It was tedious.
2. It was long.
3. It was boring.
4. It went off in unnecessary tangents.
5. The characters didn't seem...
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  1.0

by: jl1978
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
It makes a good paper weight.
Cons
Tedious, wordy, hyped beyond belief.
 
25 out of 25 people found this review helpful.

Correct Me If I'm Wrong

Date of Review:  May 30, 2002
The Bottom Line: A good read for the in-tune reader with a love for character portrayal, description and scene-painting.
Review: 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...
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  5.0

by: kirsten_1964
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Vivid characters and humor punctuates...
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Descriptive to a tedious degree at...
 
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...
Cons
Entirely too long, Franzen loves to...
 
16 out of 16 people found this review helpful.

Novelist May Have Written a Pretentious Novel Intentionally

Date of Review:  Apr 19, 2002
The Bottom Line: I recommend this for those who aren't interested in a light read. There aren't many books this well written in spite of its pretentious quality.
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By Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Author of ?This is the Place.?



In The Corrections, Franzen gets the last laugh. You?re not going to know what I mean by that until you?ve read the last paragraph of this review,...
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  5.0

by: howard-johnson
Recommended to buy: Yes

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This novel is well worth the time. The...
Cons
At times, it seems overworked and...
 
15 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

Who Needs Correcting?

Date of Review:  Feb 8, 2002
The Bottom Line: A book about family and how criticism can destroy what might be happier and more contented lives. Discontent and blame illustrate the damage done when love and understanding could prevail.
Review: 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 and...
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  4.0

by: sailork
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Good strong writing with believable...
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A bit long and certainly depressing...
 

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