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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 09:40

Has anyone else read this?

It is over and above my favourite book of the year. Highly reccomended.

It reduced me to tears in parts which happens rarely with books for me.

I have two others by him but found them very hard to get into.

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:11

I'm ordering A Million Little Pieces now.

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orangina · 10/12/2009 10:10

Oh yes, that last Hanif Kueishi bok (slightly annoying and self conscious, but still enjoyed it....)

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:10

yy all of em

love em

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:10

Have you read the Steig Larssen books yet? They are next on my list....

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:09

Hanif Kureishi too

especially Intimacy and Something to tell you (another dysfunctional families one)

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:09

ooh have never heard of TC ( apart from in the cartoon ba boom tish)
laters!

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:09

i think lyn barber is raunchy ersion of my mum emotion wise

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:09

Yes to TC Boyle as well.

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:08

love kingsolver
lamb?
boyle?

ooh

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:08

SC, we are reading the same books (while x-posting).....!

Mistletoesnowman · 10/12/2009 10:08

I can't really remember what happened in it but I loved The Corrections when I read it.

Loved the Lynn Barber book too SCargot but then I love her interviews and am gutted she has left the Observer for the Sunday Times.

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:08

LOVED Middlesex

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:08

Salman Rushdie, Fury?
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex?
Anything by Wally Lamb, or Barbara Kingsolver?

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:08

Middlesex by erm euginie something

ANYTHING by TC Boyle. His short stories are great too.

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:06

argh this a cross posty thread

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:06

QUICK
anything else as i hated when carter beats the devil

popular ones haev been heller, er,., h god YOU knwo what i like 100

oh loved the lyn barber boiok - made me ROAR

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:06

That wasn't a question that's the title of the book.

Not his finest. I prefer his 90's things.

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:05

oh GREAT am so excited

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:04

All Families are Psychotic. Douglas Coupland.

covycrump · 10/12/2009 10:04

Definitely worth getting SCargot, and I'm fed up with reading pregnancy & baby books (due 1st tomorrow) so I'm going to dig my copy out today and start reading it again. Just looking at wiki, and see that a film had been planned for years, with David Hare working on the screenplay.

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:04

ooh yes SC always take the stickers OFF

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:04

All families are psychotic?

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:04

after loving the beleivers...

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:03

I dunno I did tend to recoil from books that had 'Richard and Judy book club' stickers on the front. Maybe I'm a wanker too.

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orangina · 10/12/2009 10:03

The villified made up onw was A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (which I loved btw....). Also love The Corrections. Read it now if you haven't read it yet.

I do love a novel about dysfunctional families!

(Feels all warm inside and completely at home with the subject....).

There's a great Douglas Coupland one too....

(racks brain)