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"Freedom", by Jonathan Franzen OP Wed Jan 15 04:25:07 2020 No.14540628 [Reply] [Original]

Just finished this bad boy, ama.

Also, what read next? I got a smaller book to read right after this, and then I'd be down to it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 04:25:46 2020 No.14540630 is it as bad as i imagine it to be

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 04:30:53 2020 No.14540650 >>14540630 Well, it's a rather large book (500 in the physicial original edition), but most of it was really entertaining. The characters are so developed, although they change over time. You end up loving some of them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 04:41:27 2020 No.14540676 >>14540628 It's been a while since I read it. What parts stood out to you? I thought it was a throughly enjoyable and well written book. Lol'd hard at the son with the bitchy jewish girlfriend in Argentina subplot.

Anonymous Wed Jan 15 04:47:17 2020 No.14540694

>>14540676
I like the parts where they talk about Joey. That episode is really funny, I can agree. The last episode stood out, but bc of how pathetic Walter looks, living down there. He's a lame character, after all. He is just as stupid and destructiuve as Patty, but in a more subtle way.

Anonymous Wed Jan 15 04:49:53 2020 No.14540709

>>14540694
Agreed. His is a masculine stupidity, though. One of misspent energies and lost causes. plus he got cucked.

Funny to think, I probably read this 18 months ago, and the one thing I remember deeply from the novel is how destructive cats are and that they need to be kept inside lol

Concerned poster. Wed Jan 15 05:06:06 2020 No.14540764

>>14540709
I can agree. Although him getting cucked isn't the worst. Could happen to everybody. The political tour with Lalitha... Now, THAT is lame.

Funny to me, at the beggining I liked Walter and disliked Joey. Then my mind took an 180º turn. lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 05:21:59 2020 No.14540806 TIl joey bought a sandwich with his first paycheck

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 05:23:37 2020 No.14540811 >>14540764 Read Purity too. Franzen’s stuff can feel a little formulaic once you’ve read a lot, but that one is a good read too.

>>	OP Wed Jan 15 05:36:39 2020 No.14540850 >>14540811 quick rundown? Is it as long as Freedom? >>14540806 ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 07:36:32 2020 No.14541215 BOMP

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 10:32:30 2020 No.14541808 That's a nice book

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 15 13:34:37 2020 No.14542685 bump

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