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

[rich]

Great Jones Street is really about language, rock n roll is just the window
dressing (and a fine one at that).

Rich

On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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!
>
> Anybody else like it?
>
> Jerky
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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