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I missed Franzen's appearance in Copenhagen recently, but what I could do was re-read Freedom. Actually, I listened to it this time, which I an highly recommend. The narrator, David Ledoux, is very good.
This book is as fresh as when it was written and I think I liked it even more this time. The family squabbles through the decades are so precisely described and so super-cringe, they could be real.
When I read it the first time I hadn't read Marcel Proust, but this time 'round I kept thinking that Franzen must have read him and enjoyed the way Proust shows us how we think. The way they both describe so vividly and recognisably how we make very important decisions in our lives, based on very skewed thinking. It's truly marvellous!
This book is as fresh as when it was written and I think I liked it even more this time. The family squabbles through the decades are so precisely described and so super-cringe, they could be real.
When I read it the first time I hadn't read Marcel Proust, but this time 'round I kept thinking that Franzen must have read him and enjoyed the way Proust shows us how we think. The way they both describe so vividly and recognisably how we make very important decisions in our lives, based on very skewed thinking. It's truly marvellous!