Oprah's next Book Selection (np)

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

laura kelber wrote
> Franzen vs. Oprah:
> 
> http://www.mobylives.com/Oprah_v_Franzen.html
> 

isn't it true that there's no such thing as bad publicity?
Count me among the cynics who suspect the timing of Michael Richards's outburst too...

Just took a look at the Amazon review, and found this sample sentence:

"Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity." 

eeewww, 

Also, this phrase: "a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler's, only bitter" is kind of like the description of Boopsie in Doonesbury a few years ago - "like Streep, but without the talent"

Haven't had any urge to read "The Corrections" either when Oprah listed it or when she delisted it.  Even less after checking Amazon.  Am I misinterpreting; should I feel plate tectonically cumulative anxiety over not having read any Franzen?