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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Rachbxl's 75 books for 2008 | | 162 | TrishNYC, Yesterday 9:32pm |  |
| Reading Globally : rachbxl reads around the world | | 84 | akeela, September 29 | |
| Nederlandstalige lezers : Slechtste boek dat je hebt uitgelezen | | 46 | MijnBoekenkast, September 28 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : 0bazooka0 starts June 2008 | | 20 | 0bazooka0, September 25 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Post with touchstone for all 1001? | | 16 | arukiyomi, September 10 | |
| Book talk : What is the WORST book that youve ever red? | | 424 | desultory, September 7 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : August 2008: Which Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? | | 113 | ktleyed, August 30 | |
| Book talk : Guess the book v3.0 | | 303 | dreamlikecheese, August 11 | |
| Book talk : [The Corrections] by [[Joathan Franzen]] and end of book redemptions. | | 2 | asurbanipal, August 10 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : July 2008, Which book from the 1001 List are You Reading? | | 80 | TheTortoise, August 10 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Let's talk about it | | 14 | CD1am, August 7 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 10 May 2008 | | 180 | jessicacurry, July 30 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : How Many Books Do You Read Per Week? And How Do You Make Time to Read? | | 72 | alcottacre, July 25 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 July 2008 | | 315 | cameling, July 25 | |
| Book Listers UNITE! : The EW 100 New Classics List | | 15 | njd908, July 16 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 July 2008 | | 264 | Whicker, July 15 | |
| Someone explain it to me... : Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe | | 28 | kambrogi, June 22 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game | | 300 | BKieras, June 16 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - May. 2008 | | 236 | annatapl, June 15 | |
| The Prizes : The James Tait Black Memorial Prize | | 11 | avaland, May 22 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : My Challenge List | | 12 | hansenmk, May 18 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Verdant: 75 books for 2008 | | 15 | Verdant, May 14 | |
| Bug Collectors : A book on my list that I didn't put there!?! | | 17 | timspalding, May 10 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008 | | 388 | milbaby, May 2 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 2001 | | 17 | keren7, April 23 | |
| Girlybooks : 500 Great Books by Women | | 202 | primlil, April 6 | |
| The Green Dragon : The TBR List from Hell | | 74 | citygirl, March 29 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Books that once you read them, you wondered why they are on the list | | 46 | jhowell, March 28 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 1 March 2008 | | 180 | karogers, March 9 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for February 2008 | | 123 | Vonini, March 5 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 February 2008 | | 148 | kmbooklover, February 25 | |
| lets talk about anything : i am bored | | 36 | MrsGrinch, February 22 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Aemilys 1001 challenge | | 23 | aemilys, January 4 | |
| Dormant: Reading Resolutions : Five big books you will read in 2007 | | 95 | RSHabroptilus, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Group Read? | | 24 | Morphidae, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Giving Up on a Book You Don't Like | | 127 | Esta1923, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Rivercassini's Reading List 2007 | | 17 | Rivercassini, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Aug | | 151 | Cariola, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : What exactly is a "literary" novel? Your ideas | | 87 | LizT, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Site talk : Suggester and Fiction vs Non fiction | | 17 | westher, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : here comes EvilTwin | | 2 | EvilTwin, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : The kind of writing you just can't read | | 56 | Phlox72, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Metafilter : Mandatory "favorite books" discussion | | 38 | MeFipatricio, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Audiobooks : is abridged worth it? | | 9 | bfertig, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Author Gender | | 60 | Kira, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: Modern Classics Club : Modern Classics Message Board | | 10 | Kell_Smurthwaite, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Oprah Did It! | | 3 | RachaelfromNJ, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006 | | 139 | GaryKurtz, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Apr 2007 | | 136 | Storeetllr, April 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Annie's 52 Book Challenge | | 9 | blissfulwitch, April 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 Dec 2006 | | 128 | jcasteel, January 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : When to give up? | | 34 | aluvalibri, December 2006 | |
| BookMooching : A Book Search Among Friends | | 348 | msf59, Wednesday 7:50pm |
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| Awful Lit. : I can't believe I wasted my time on this... | | 443 | frdiamond, Monday 6:16am |
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| Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? | | 479 | amatureorator, September 24 |
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| Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate | | 402 | Karbie, September 19 |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read? | | 213 | hemlokgang, September 18 |
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| Science Fiction Fans : What are you reading? Q3 July - Sept 2008 | | 266 | CliffBurns, September 3 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 8 | | 353 | Jodyreadseverything, September 2 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : The Clunkers of 2007 | | 222 | theduckthief, August 20 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books | | 335 | Cariola, August 16 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #1: JULY. 2008 | | 270 | teelgee, July 16 |
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| The Green Dragon : I will never again read anything by | | 280 | RuneFirestar, June 26 |
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| The Green Dragon : Books you've read that you should have enjoyed... | | 31 | clamairy, March 7 |
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| Audiobooks : What Are You Listening To Now? Part 2 | | 220 | teelgee, February 21 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : A modern day Hemingway please! | | 25 | Grammath, January 20 |
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| Dormant: Awful Lit. : everyone said I should read this because??? | | 137 | princessputter, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Everyone hates the POSTMODERN novels we love! | | 67 | Madcow299, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : kiwiflowa's books 2007 | | 24 | kiwiflowa, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top Books read first half of 2007 January-June | | 59 | Nickelini, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top books read 2nd quarter 2007 April - June | | 60 | grkmwk, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - July 2007 | | 176 | kidzdoc, August 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Literary Snobbery | | 126 | momom248, May 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 24 Feb 2007 | | 137 | Storeetllr, March 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Popular authors you can't get into | | 58 | nymith, March 2007 |
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Dead Air
Nowhere Man
The Book of Illusions
Gabriel’s Gift
Austerlitz
Platform
Schooling
Atonement
The Corrections
Don’t Move
The Body Artist
Fury
At Swim, Two Boys
Choke
...
Lost in a Good Book
Paradise of the Blind (has some water damage, but is readable)
The Corrections
The Corrections is the best description we have of rich New Yorkers in 1999-2000, just before the 9/11 attacks. Of people who could do business in the towers.
They feel masters of the world (the Lithuanian venture for example) despite their misfortunes. I am roughly 400 pages into Cryptonomicon after spending far too long on The Corrections ... of Richard Bausch by Richard Bausch
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Having finished The Corrections, I'll be returning in earnest to Rebecca, and will be tempering the familiarity of that work with Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers. A little more than an hour before midnight here on the East Coast, and I just finished The Corrections. What an amazingly compelling story -- but damned if it isn't one of the most depressing books I have EVER read. I'm really not sure I could ever get through this one again, even knowing what ... ... my excessive familiarity with Rebecca (having seen the Hitchcock film recently), I'm countering it simultaneously with The Corrections, which I went into with a completely blank slate and am finding incredibly engrossing! Ah, Andy, we're all friends here. Tell us what ya read, regardless. Show off a little. Tell us why THE CORRECTIONS was so darn good (and why it bored the snot out of me).
I've read SECRET AGENT and HEART OF DARKNESS and I have to say, ol' Joe is not for me... Mijn "slechtste boek, toch uitgelezen" is The Corrections van Jonathan Franzen. Het verhaal is veelbelovend, het gaat vooral over menselijke interacties, en er zit ook nog een beetje surrealisme in hier en daar, en oog voor de donkere kanten van het leven - klinkt helemaal goed. Maar de stijl ... Finished The Corrections started Everything is Illuminated ... I haven't been disappointed in anything else of hers.
>257: 0bazooka0
haha, if you had the fortitude to get through The Corrections, you'll have no problem with Everything is Illuminated, which has just one aspect (the Trachimbrod narrative) that I thought required some readerly elbow ... I just finished The Corrections which, while very good needed to be about 150 pages shorter than it was. Now I'm starting on Everything is Illuminated and I really hope it lives up to the hype. Finished The Corrections and started Everything is Illuminated ... - I liked the first two parts, and then it just fell apart.
All of Hemingway, except for A Farewell to Arms
The Corrections - it takes a lot of willpower for me to not respond "No! Don't do it!" whenever I see someone posting that they are reading it.
Saturday. I like other ... I'm glad to hear some support for The Corrections, as I agreed to purchase it from a friend for a mere $2. Hope it pays off! ... I've become immune to verbal gymnastics. Nobody loves to throw around their vocabulary weight more than that guy.
The Corrections does tend to ramble at times, particularly when it comes to Alfred's musings, but the basic storyline is fantastic. ... my philosophy 101 class. I'm really into it though and I can't wait to dive in some more tonight.
#32--I'll have to take The Corrections off the shelf again. I read 2 pages a few years ago and felt like "wow, this guy is just showing off verbal gymnastics" It may have been my mood at the time ... I'm still working on The Corrections, one of the best books from the list so far. I'm still working on The Corrections by Jonathan Franzan. I just got past the big section with Gary coming to terms with his depression. Yeah, he's an alcoholic and yes he may be depressed, but I still hate Caroline. D: ... good weather providing.
I usually do about a book and a half per week, sometimes more, sometimes less. I've been reading The Corrections but I haven't even reached the halfway point, just because this past week has been crazy. ... rath
42. Of Mice and Men
43. The Hobbit
44. Brave New World
45. The Great Gatsby
46. Siddhartha
Currently reading
The Corrections
On the shelf:
Everything is Illuminated
The Colour
Don't Move I just finished The Body Artist and have started on The Corrections
I'm looking forward to this book. I love the disfunctional mid-west family epic, and it has been compared to Middlesex which is another favorite. I am reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Finished The Body Artist started The Corrections I went to the used bookstore last night and picked up a hardcover copy of The Corrections for $9 ... Country by Kawabata
16. The Farming of Bones by Edwige Danticat
17. Los premios by Julio Cortazar
18. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
19. One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
20. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
21. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
22. ... The corrections by jonathan franzen, yes? After reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen I'll never read another. Awful writing and characters. ... E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Advent ... ... my head as soon as I read your opening line, but I might as well give it a shot.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides or The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen? (@ karmadillo) Exactly: the corrections is horrible. The story (when summarised) seems alright. But the descriptions just don't work. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
Still unsure about it 100 pages in. ... America
Map of the World
Tyrannosaurus Sue
and 100 Great Kings, Queens, and Rulers
Plus some for bookmooch:
The Corrections
To Kill a Mockingbird
Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
and All He Ever Wanted ... when I logged in, I had six pages of books. Some of the Vox books are there, but not all (for example, I had J. Franzen's The Corrections in the Vox group, but it does not appear in my LibraryThing library. Meanwhile, there is a whole bunch of other books, primarily genre fiction, that I've ... I gave up on The Corrections when it first came out as well. I gave it a good 60 pages or so, but nothing was happening. I did not understand all the hoopla surrounding it. Same with Atonement which got rave reviews. I generally stick by the rule of thumb of 60 pages (or less). Life's too short ... Another popular book that I gave up on a few years back was The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. The writing was OK, the experimental structure interesting, but I had no interest whatsoever in any of the characters. That's always a killer for me. 36. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
I know I said earlier that this book was too weird for me to finish, so I got it on audiobook (because I'm one of those people who HAS to finish a book if I start it). This book was weird, but the ending was good.
37. Dance of Sisters by Tracey ... I own and have read The corrections and I was not happy with the ending. I've read The Corrections, what about The Glass Bead Game? Thanks Nickelini.
I'm game to go - How about The corrections , I'm a sucker for a good dysfunctional family piece, and I don't think anything has mentioned this yet. ... success, which became a sort of unearned hype, and to the dandyish media image of its author.
Presently I'm finishing Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, which I finally got around to. I think it's a much better book than Bonfire--in places it's terrific, not as emotionally stilted as W ... ... -- Sarah Waters
9) Everything Is Illuminated -- Jonathan Safran Foer
10) Middlesex -- Jeffrey Eugenides
11) The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
12) Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk
13) The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami
15) ... ... gift card) and of course I didn't leave either of those places empty-handed...
Goodwill ($8.50 for 6 books!):
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (I've read some of Lauren Willig's books recently ... I agree with The Corrections and Saturday but the most egregious offender I have stumbled on lately -- Everything is Illuminated -- so overrated and annoying. I'll agree with Corrections--I didn't mind it as much as some other readers here, but I wouldn't qualify it as a must read by any stretch. I'll also add McEwan's Atonement--this is one I see no need to Ever go back to OR recommend, certainly not a must-read. Wild Animus
The Corrections
The Bonfire of the Vanities The Corrections. I know it is supposed to be brilliant, but I loathed every character, thought they should get some perspective and get on with life. Ah well. Thank goodness there are lots of choices.
... that the authorities will look after them, whilst others rage against their condition and try to take action.
6. USA
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
I read all 653 pages of this in 2 days, mainly on a plane on holiday, and I think that's partly why I enjoyed it so much - not ... ... faith that the authorities will look after them, whilst others rage against their condition and try to take action.
18. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
I read all 653 pages of this in 2 days, mainly on a plane on holiday, and I think that's partly why I enjoyed it so much - not ... The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. What a peice of melodramatic tripe about of family of self-absorbed twits. The only one of them I liked was the old geezer who kept peeing in the coffee can on his work bench.
Luckily I hadn't bought it, but had gotten it from the library! I finished The corrections and enjoed it. I also finished The Picture of Dorian Gray and The fall of the house of Usher.
I am now reading City of God and enjoying it so far. I finished The heart of redness on Monday and enjoyed it, but did not love it.
I am now reading The Corrections and am enjoying it. ... and I can't wait! I am really not liking the book much. After that I'll pick up a borrowed copy of Uglies.
I have The Corrections and am interested in it, but haven't made the jump yet. It's a big mama jamma! @keren7 #129
The Corrections is a great read, particularly the first 2/3rds or so. I was obsessed with it about this time last year. My wife (who recommended it) became jealous of all the time I was spending with it! ... Love in the Time of cholera and found it a sad book - so much time was wasted for this couple.
I am now going to start The corrections and finish The pciture of Dorian Gray. I was completely turned off by The Corrections, even though it was was listed as the best book of the year by everyone and their cousin. I found the characters deeply unpleasant and I could not begin to care enough about them to keep reading.
The worst book I have read recently was an online ... None of those for me. I own The Corrections and am interested in it, but haven't read it yet. I hear really mixed reviews. You seem to either love it or hate it. ... seems like a pretty reasonable goal, considering the time I spend reading.
Books for January, in no particular order:
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How to DJ Right by Frank Broughton
Geek ... ... move, swallow it" substance abuse. Sedaris is very much alive -- thank goodness. I'd contrast him to Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, which IMO is more neurotically self-fascinated. Another cheerful iconoclast -- no hemingway -- is Christopher Moore. For living literature... Michael ... ... the book I'm reading (Pillar of Salt) and the protagonist's teen years - much the same kind of thing going on.
Is The Corrections a family story? (haven't read it, but much, of course, was said of it) I didn't like The Corrections either and I stopped reading that book. I couldn't even figure out at the time why there was such media hype about the novel. You know what I mean, sometimes you don't like a book but you recognize that it is an excellent piece of writing, or the dialogue is ... Not a popular view, I'm sure, but The Corrections. I read it before the book came out, but when I saw it on the list my eyes practically bugged out in fury. I HATE that book! Same with The English Patient. Bleh.
I love Paul Auster, but I agree that there's no reason to have The Book of Illus ... ... Setterfield
The first and last were the content that bothered me, the 2nd and 3rd were style.
I have started The Corrections by Jonathan Franken but am not sure I will go back to it.
Books I did finish but was disappointed with:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edw ... ... Against America.
and since I'm going to add the rest of my 1001 21st century August reading here, I also read
17. Corrections by Jonathon Franzen which was excellent as well and
18. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, which I thought was just ok. You know it was that dude. Er.
The Corrections is the book, I think. Franzen?
... Emery White
OK so I'm slowing down a bit.... not good! :)
Oh, and by the way, I would definitely NOT reccommend The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Very very weird! I gave it a good shot, but just couldn't get into it! Struck out here -- I've read more books from the 1915 list! My husband read The Corrections and hated it so I didn't bother -- should I give it a chance? Just finished The Corrections, which while I liked the narrator, I didn't like the story or really any of the characters. It was one of those books that I felt just sorta ended rather abruptly. I've finally gotten a hold of an unabridged recording of Team of Rivals (36 CDs!) and am already very ... ... mingway
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
In 2001 (the latest year I've done), we managed at least one:
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. 19 people have actually tagged it as "literary" or "literary fiction". ... all the posts but I can think of 2 I read all the way through and felt it was way harder than it was worth and that was The Corrections by Franzen and Special Topics in Calamity Physics Just started A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth.
>30:amandameale>33:cariola:>34:storeetllr-Regarding The Corrections, as soon as I started on it, guess what, I realised that I'd read it before and, guess what again, remembered I'd enjoyed reading about this dysfunctional family and liked the ... ... 6
6. Harry Potter 7
7. Half of a Yellow Sun
8. The Road--yuck! at least it was a fast read.
I've just started The Corrections and am loving it! I've also been reading A Confederacy of Dunces off and on.
I just saw Gem of the Ocean at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and will ... ... in preparation for several September book discussions (it's our community reading title this year).
#9 hazelk - I read The Corrections several years ago and really enjoyed it. In fact, it was the first book my S.O. and I bonded over. Fortunately, though, it is not a reflection on our own ... I read The Corrections several years ago and really enjoyed it, but I agree with amandameale, hazelk--I'd be surprised if it's your cup of tea. (You and I seem to have a fair amount of crossover, but I think this falls outside of it.)
I finished The Great Stink by Clare Clark today, which ... ... fiction - On the natural history of destruction W.G. Sebald, trans. by Anthea Bell.
#36 Kiwiflowa, I enjoyed The Corrections & hated to see it end.His characters are so well-drawn. Yet, i agree, Chip was probably the weakest (& most like himself) #33 and #34. I read The Corrections and enjoyed it. I enjoyed the characters personalities most, what actually happened to the characters was secondary to me. The thing I didn't like was Chip's character transformation at the end. It was a bit trite?
I have got myself into a predicament over ... #9--I tried; just couldn't get through The Corrections. #9 hazelk: I'll be interested to see what you think of The Corrections. After reading so many of your posts, I'm not sure you'll like it. I will wait for news.
Finished Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively - I think this will always be one of my favourite books. Started Manhattan Transfer by ... Reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I just started The Corrections and am about 2.5 hrs into it. Pretty well written so far, and I am enjoying George Guidell's narration. He also narrated The Master and Margarita which I really enjoyed a lot. He did a great job with Behemouth's character, completely conveying the snide ... ... There. I solved the big dilemma.
What about A Million Little Pieces?
What about Deepak Chopra?
Why is The Corrections tagged nonfiction at least once?
...What about the Bible?
I would rather have an imperfect but generally serviceable hack, I think. Well, I've read The corrections & I actually hated to see it end. It could be another American classic.
I've also read the John Gresham books. He is a good writer, too, but I don't care for legal thrillers.
Terry McMillan is another good writer. I've read Waiting to exhale & enjoyed it. M ... ... 21 reviews. (legal thriller)
4. Dreamcatcher by Stephen King has 1,558 owners and 14 reviews. (horror)
5. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen has 3,759 owners and 57 reviews. Is this to become an American classic?
6. Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub ... ... be really cool if they had a CD recording of it.
My local county library apparently has an unabridged recording of The Corrections so I put that on hold, and as soon as they get their air conditioning fixed and reopen, I'll be able to start listening to that as well. ... by Michener,
Benjamin Franklin (specifically by Walter Isaacson,
The Swamp by Michael Grunwald
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
and
Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell
I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. ...
Came home with
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Mobile library:The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
all for £1.20! How's that then! ... aware of plots in which the writer is of one gender and a main character is the other ... for example, although I loved The Corrections and The twenty-seventh city by Jonathan Franzen, I could not get through his Strong motion, primarily because I didn't think one of his main female ... ... "I am smarter than you tone" that pervades some author's works epitomized most memorably for me in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Get over yourself. Jonathan Franzen The corrections
Barbara Kingsolver The poisonwood Bible
Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose
Donna Tartt The secret history
Richard Ford The sportswriter
William Styron Sophie's choice
Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
Margaret Lawrence A jest of God
Ross Lockridge Ra ... ... half:
Final List:
1.Falls the Shadow Sharon Penman (1)
2.Hiding from the Light Barbara Erskine (1)
3.The Corrections Jonathan Franzen (2)
4.Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult (2)
5.House of the spirits Isabel Allende (2)
... for the second quarter:
Final List:
1.Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult
2.Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro
3.The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
4.The sword and the scimitar David Ball
5.House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
... Continues Linda Berdoll 4/5
18.Wild Lavender Belinda Alexandra 2/5
19.The sword and the scimitar David Ball 5/5
20.The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 5/5
21.The Borgia Bride J.M. Dillard 4/5
Attempted: The Loves of Charles II Jean Plaidy 0
22.Into Temptation (reread) Penny Vincenz ... 16. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
17. Mother Leakey and the Bishop by Peter Marshall
Mmm...touchstones not working for the last one That book is The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Here is something from Wikpedia about it.
The book was a selection of Oprah's Book Club in 2001 (ISBN 0-374-10012-8); Franzen caused some controversy when he publicly lamented the fact that, once selected, the club's insignia was printed ... ... too. I was looking for creative inspiration, not therapy. Rarely, do I not finish a book, but I could not get through The Corrections. ... as my own snobbery goes, I would say that Jonathan Franzen should take a metaphorical look in his own backyard. To me, The Corrections was literary dross. The Corrections - Jonathon Franzen
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
The Castle - Franz Kafka
And almost everything by Nabokov
... that Jonathan Franzen was very upset when Oprah chose his book. It was almost as if he thought that by Oprah choosing The Corrections he felt his book had little literary merit. In this case, Jonathan Franzen was the literary snob.
Then Oprah began choosing classics. Those have been ... ... The Plot against America.
It is the exact same feeling I had about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Corrections. I know I am reading a well written book, but I just can't connect.
I am still reading Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. It is a slight little novel ( ... ... read it anyway." I liked DeLillo's White Noise, and really liked Rushdie's Midnight's Children. But disliked Franzen'sThe Corrections and Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay. I haven't read David Foster Wallace or Pynchon though.
I think there is a subtle difference ... ... to persevere, though, as I feel that there is great promise for an enjoyable read. Also, when I read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections a couple of years ago, I also felt a similar ambiguity, and wound up loving his book in the end. ... 789 pages.
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov 609 pages.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 529 pages.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 557 pages.
And if I can manage it:
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams 839 pages
The Blind Assassin by Margare ... I agree with not getting into post-modernist stuff. I really did not like The Corrections by Franzen and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon.
People rave but I found myself just hating the characters, not caring about the story, and feeling like if I met the author I ... the corrections, Wapshot Chronicles I put down but I'll finish at some point. Corrections was the first book in years. I also nearly finished it but gave up. Im ready to throw in the towel on crying of lot 49 right now.
sad ... knows how much reading the future holds.
I have a list of books that I would like to cross off my list this year:
* The Corrections
* The Book Thief
* An Evening of Long Goodbyes
* Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
* Elsewhere by Zevin
* Madame Bovary
* Ho ... I enjoyed The Corrections but couldn't get into Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. I also felt manipulated by The Kite Runner, which made me extra angry because of the subject matter. The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen. There was heaps of hype when it came out but I thought it was just painful American angst - a bit like Catcher in the Rye which I agree also belongs on this list. ... Club. Can you tell me a bit about it to see if I can jog my memory.
I'm just about to finish Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Not quite sure what to make of this one: it's interesting, well-written, with very well-drawn and engaging, if not likeable, characters. And very real. But ... ... I tend not to give up on books that have been raved over, just so that I can say I read it :)
I did give up on The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen about 2/3 of the way through. Today, after 100 pages, I gave up on A Season For The Dead by David Hewson as I found I couldn't ... ... for me to read. The po-mo dilemma is, to me, how to keep people interested in shocking, shocking revelations (like The Corrections or A HEartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, to name two books I just couldn't love) when we're all about shocked out....
I've retreated to the Roman E ... Ooooh, you hated The Corrections too? I wanted to poke my eyes out by the time I got to page 85. I tossed out the book instead.
I used to read through to the bitter end, no matter what, but after that (and Map of the World, another one I loathed), I swore I'd never do it to myself again. ... ... to include books that suck in my library, hence, I rarely write totally negative reviews. (I had to make an exception with The Corrections, tho, so so bad!) Life is too short to read bad books, or waste your time and bandwidth reviewing them. Don't feed the trolls.
I do, however, enjoy ... ... ...
2005 Ian McEwan
Saturday
2004 David Peace
GB84
2003 Andrew O'Hagan
Personality
2002 Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
2001 Sid Smith
Something Like a House
2000 Zadie Smith
White Teeth
1999 Timothy Mo
Renegade or Halo2
1998 Beryl Bainbridge
... ... ...
2005 Ian McEwan
Saturday
2004 David Peace
GB84
2003 Andrew O'Hagan
Personality
2002 Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
2001 Sid Smith
Something Like a House
2000 Zadie Smith
White Teeth
1999 Timothy Mo
Renegade or Halo2
1998 Beryl Bainbridge
... ... hate some really good books.
I've been trying to think of a book that I can't stand but it isn't easy. Franzen's The Corrections is a book that I disliked rather intensely while reading it. But, like it or not, I have to admit that it was well written. I just thought Franzen was too ... ... (by the end of the second chapter, all I wanted was to slap Scarlett, the little twit, and toss the book in the trash), The Corrections (another Oprah book ~ couldn't get past the part where one of the men was having lunch and contemplating cutting off his arm at the wrist; all I could think ... I'm not from St. Louis but I gotta agree about The Corrections. Overhyped, overrated. Couldn't get through it.
The Little Friend on the other hand? Best book I read last year. ... darling, I cannot either novel Jonathan Franzen has written (I can't ever get into The Twenty-Seventh City, and I found The Corrections to be condescending and downright hateful, at times. (I should note that I'm from St. Louis -- that may have some bearing).
This won't keep me from ...
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