For crying out loud, I am glad Oprah is not on the air anymore to bamboozle me into reading more stupid books! Yes, the way Franzen writes about the lives of people in a family is somewhat interesting, but as I wondered at the end of The Corrections, so what? Maybe it is just me, but I have no tolerance for starting a good story without a clear direction for how it is going to end. I don't want to read loose stories about not well developed characters and then the book just ends through odd plot contrivances. At 550 pages I expect a real story with deep characterization, instead I got rehashing of the same obvious gender stereotypes. No more Jonathan Franzen for me, thanks.
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