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megfasy 's review for:
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
Incredible writing ruined by a boring story. (Kidding, kind of!). I am not the fastest or most attentive reader so the Corrections took me a long time to get through (over 3 months...). Franzen's writing is exceptional. He describes emotions that you thought no one else had in ways that capture the feeling to a tee, it was uncanny to even read it. That said, he is detailed to a fault. It's obviously intentional but not my preferred style of storytelling: to go into great depth and detail for a side story that only minutely supports the overall narrative. It felt a bit futile to me and a waste of time and energy invested into reading parts that don't ultimately impact the story. The Corrections is a book that is bizarrely mundane. Entirely relatable for the way it captures American family dynamics yet not relatable at all in other ways. I don't love reading books that feel like reading a reflection of one's own life. I didn't enjoy taking on the stress of reading about another family and their dysfunctional dynamics. Again, impressively good writing, but not the style of storytelling (or story itself) that I find entertaining. The juice wasn't "worth the squeeze."