bringing back the literacy.

[pompoma]

So, today I have finished The Corrections which pretty much took me this whole summer to finish. It didn't really interest me until I was about half way through. It's by Jonathan Franzen and all the critics loved it; it won some award. The author is from Webster Groves, which if you don't know, is a suburb of St. Louis. The book is about a

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[limeonaire]

I loved The Corrections. I think he pegged the entire Midwestern oeuvre therein.

I'm also currently reading The Discomfort Zone, though. I'm a big Franzen fan.

[pompoma]

I don't know, I think he was being a bit harsh on the Midwest and glorified the East Coast a bit more than it deserves, but I guess everyone does that including midwesterners, and it's his book so whatever.

I read about The Discomfort Zone in Time Magazine. It's definitely on my list of books to read. Did you read How to be Alone (or something like that)?

[limeonaire]

I did read it...or, well, most of it. I eventually got bored with it and had to return it to the library, so I never did finish it. The Discomfort Zone is better, although it does reprint a story I remember reading before, possibly in "How To Be Alone," though I'm not sure.