Freedom

I\’m reading Freedom, and it\’s way better than The Corrections, which I read and promptly forgot pretty much the entire contents of.  Yeah, I know, pretty novel for me to rave about Jonathan Franzen\’s latest, but there you have it. It\’s quite riveting.  I always forget, though, when I embark on a Serious Contemporary Novel, how such books never ever have happy endings (or beginnings or middles, typically).  Sometimes this bums me out.  Like, there\’s enough true sad stuff without having to spend one\’s leisure time reading about fake sad stuff. I watched The Social Network, and...

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