The Decade's Best Books

[rich]

Franzen has my unremitting hatred for his Gaddis diss in the New
Yorker. the pompous fool has the audacity to say JR isn't worth
reading. fuck him.
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> Maybe the decade's biggest novel, in terms of its scope, Jonathan
> Franzen's The Corrections (2001) was about family, which made you
> think of Tolstoy—but it was also about money, the market, big pharma,
> unbridled Russian death capitalism, the goofiness of academic American
> postmodernism, gourmet cooking, therapy, and, maybe above all else,
> passive aggression.