Freedom

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

i liked it a lot. i remember it getting a lot of flack when it was released, but i don't remember exactly what people disliked about it.

sure, there were some things that went too far or seemed over-exaggerated. but just like in 'the corrections', the horrible thought processes and decisions that the characters make are just too close to home to dismiss the book. there were several points during reading at which i was physically uncomfortable because i recognized my own terrible patterns in this or that character. that's not easy to do for a writer, but franzen nails it.

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