Freedom by Jonathan Frazen

[techie]

Just finished Freedom (pub 2010) by Jonathan Frazen. I enjoyed it, I recommend it, but preferred his last novel The Corrections (pub 2001) Will provide a critique the front part of next week.

I am just starting Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (pub 2010) by David Sedaris....more to follow!

[peacenik]

Freedom by Jonathan Frazen

i preferred "freedom" over "the corrections". maybe it's because i was younger when i read it and didn't quite get it. i loved freedom, but didn't think it was a great literary masterpiece like some critics touted it to be. just because a guy refuses oprah's bookclub, does not make him the writer of the century imho.

[techie]

Freedom by Jonathan Frazen

peacenik;1002708 wrote: i preferred "freedom" over "the corrections". maybe it's because i was younger when i read it and didn't quite get it. i loved freedom, but didn't think it was a great literary masterpiece like some critics touted it to be. just because a guy refuses oprah's bookclub, does not make him the writer of the century imho.

Thanks peacenik. It's funny I thought The Corrections was just genius. I did enjoy Freedom but not as well. I knew about the Oprah situation but his rationale escapes me. Off to google!

[peacenik]

Freedom by Jonathan Frazen

on your advice, i will re-read the corrections!