nicola_in_yeg780 's review for:

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

1.0

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What an unrewarding slog. I don't know why people like Jonathan Franzen. Yes, his characters were well constructed, interesting and quirky, yet each had such a swath of darkness in them to render them completely unsympathetic. Why did this book have to be so long? It was a 200 page story padded with 400 pages of needless detail. Many times reading this I felt a discomfort akin to being trapped in a room with a boring relative telling a long story and having to listen politely for hours with no relief in sight! If this book, as some reviews have indicated, is meant to be a vignette of a typical Midwestern family, then I can only deduce that Franzen hates Midwesterners and wants all his readers to hate them too. I can say with confidence that I won't be giving Franzen books any more of my time.