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marysquillace 's review for:
Purity
by Jonathan Franzen
As someone who gobbled up "The Corrections" and "Freedom", I found appreciation for this book too, though I can't say I enjoyed it as much. On one hand, it had qualities I liked in Franzen's other book: A sweeping, well-constructed narrative delivered from multiple point of views, wit and humor and something to say. At the same time, I found this book hard to get into. I found two of the characters so grating, that parts of the book were difficult to get through, and Franzen wasn't really subtle with all the messages he was trying to get across (re: technology, privacy).