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1080364 No.1080364 [Reply] [Original]

How does /lit/ feel about the publication of Freedom in a few days?

>> No.1080366

>>1080364
I have it pre-ordered. It should be his best yet. I think it will be the only novel not to pale in comparison to George Eliot's Middlemarch.

>> No.1080368
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LIKE I HAVE JUST DISCOVERED THE SECRET IDENTITY OF THE BATMAN.

Seriously though, it makes me feel like we're all going to get attacked by giant birds.

No, really seriously though, it makes me feel pretty good. I'm looking forward to it, and I'm going to make my central mid-western family read it with me.

>> No.1080375

I saw him on the cover of time magazine? Why was he featured? Am I missing groundbreaking contemporary literature of what?

>> No.1080378

I don't read any book written by someone who's still alive.

>> No.1080383

>>1080375
As did I. Someone! Inform us!

>> No.1080388
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>>1080375
I actually find him to be horribly overrated and detracting from the attention of true modern authors such as myself~!

Franzen is a shit controversy magnet. It's something about being successful without possessing public relation tact.