What was the P-List consensus (if there was one) on Franzen's FREEDOM?

[Mark Kohut]

The new one is a long " not entirely realistic"---sez his editor---multi-generational saga. I'm not too interested, compared to other books, since I think Corrections was his Booth Tarkington best too. ....Freedom was too flawed to me. 

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> On Nov 18, 2014, at 1:12 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
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> I enjoyed Freedom pretty well but I thought The Corrections was better.  -  Just my o.   Franzen has a new one coming out next year,  it’s called “Purity.”  I’m interested in where he’ll go next - 
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> Bekah 
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>> On Nov 17, 2014, at 10:37 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Personally, I thought it was a compulsively readable, highly realistic
>> portrayal of so-called "white people's problems", not quite on par
>> with Revolutionary Road or the best Updike, but still pretty darn well
>> written, and possibly the most realistic rock-and-roll novel (one
>> major subplot) ever done. Certainly miles better than Delillo's Great
>> Jones Street!
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>> Anybody else like it?
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>> Jerky
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