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nickmasters 's review for:
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
I'll try make my review concise (unlike the book).
All in all I enjoyed the story, I just feel it was at least 200 pages to long. There was so much unnecessary padding that it often detracted from the essence of the story. I don’t remember ever feeling the need to skim over entire paragraphs like I did in this book. I recall there being like 5 pages about a conversation on carbon dioxide that had absolutely nothing to do with anything. It’s like the author had all these ideas for page fillers, that would have gone down pretty well if used in moderation across many books, but instead crammed them all into one book.
The title reminds me of a song by Kongos, called auto-correct. The subtitle in the song is, “I just want to get F________ Up”, whereas the subtitle in this book could probably “We are all F_________ Up”.
It was a weird feeling finishing the book. So often I was frustrated with how slow progress was, but yet at the end I felt sad at the prospect of not knowing what was going to happen with the kids. I mean there was a summary, which was pretty perfect in the sense that you are left with enough to feel that everyone would turn out okay, without actually being to precise, but I just wanted to know more about Denise, to find that Gary finally got out from under his missus’s thumb and that Chip sold that damn script.
So, good story, just way to much padding.
All in all I enjoyed the story, I just feel it was at least 200 pages to long. There was so much unnecessary padding that it often detracted from the essence of the story. I don’t remember ever feeling the need to skim over entire paragraphs like I did in this book. I recall there being like 5 pages about a conversation on carbon dioxide that had absolutely nothing to do with anything. It’s like the author had all these ideas for page fillers, that would have gone down pretty well if used in moderation across many books, but instead crammed them all into one book.
The title reminds me of a song by Kongos, called auto-correct. The subtitle in the song is, “I just want to get F________ Up”, whereas the subtitle in this book could probably “We are all F_________ Up”.
It was a weird feeling finishing the book. So often I was frustrated with how slow progress was, but yet at the end I felt sad at the prospect of not knowing what was going to happen with the kids. I mean there was a summary, which was pretty perfect in the sense that you are left with enough to feel that everyone would turn out okay, without actually being to precise, but I just wanted to know more about Denise, to find that Gary finally got out from under his missus’s thumb and that Chip sold that damn script.
So, good story, just way to much padding.