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>reading 27th city
>first book I've read by him
>soon realise that the conspiracy elements mentioned on the blurb are an excuse to view the relationships etc. of many characters / families
>slow paced and full of muh feels

Don't get me wrong, I read patrician lit and I also laugh with /pol/ at dindus, but is this the whitest author of all time? Does he only write books for housewives and white upper upper middle class critics?

And Freedom and The Corrections are about 1100 pages of pure family drama?

>> No.5777673

What exactly are you complaining about?

Whiteness?

>> No.5777682

drop it and try corrections or freedom

>> No.5777693

>>5777644
wasnt he the guy who made JR sound off putting because of its "difficulty"

>> No.5777695

>>5777693
It was the Recognitions, not JR, but yeah. At least he's not as bad as Dave Eggers, but that's not saying much.

>> No.5777697

>>5777644
> Does he only write books for housewives and white upper upper middle class critics?
Yes. He can't write a book that isn't spiritually set in St. Louis.

>> No.5777705

>>5777697
What do housewives and white upper middle class critics have to do with race riots?

>> No.5777736

Twenty Seventh City is a pretty fucking weird book even by Franzen's standards.
The Corrections has a lot more interesting stuff going on.
But it is mostly family drama.

>> No.5777772

>>5777695
No, you have that backwards. The Recognitions was the one he finished and liked, and JR was the one he found off-putting.

>> No.5777776

>>5777644
If sext Franzen a shit. Also DFW and he obviously fucked.

>> No.5777796

I don't get the Franzen hate. I read Freedom and liked it. Maybe loved it. He comes off as a snobby dork in interviews, so I guess he's easy to hate, but people sure seem to make an effort.

Dave Eggers too. I liked Heartbreaking Work. I thought it was well-written and funny and I thought the end was moving. <shrug>

>> No.5777857

Gotta admit it was weird in Freedom when the dfw-insert with his huge cock fucked the franzen-insert's wife and she couldnt get enough of him. But then in the end franzen's wife returned to franzen, and i think dfw just wound up being a big loser i forget.

Nameless Lake = Infinite Jest

>> No.5777897

Notice the lack of Franzen hate here now?

Its 'cause the Amerifucksticks are in bed asleep.

>> No.5777925

Death.

Death!

DEATH!

DEATH TO THE GREAT FRANZEN!

>> No.5778671

>relationships and characters are so BORING!
>I wanna read about ebic conspiracies, like on /pol/!

"patricians" confirmed for overgrown YA/thriller fans trying to look intellectual without putting in the effort