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THE CORRECTIONS is an extremely polarizing book
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THE CORRECTIONS is an extremely polarizing book

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Naomi K
Mar 04, 2014
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When I posted about Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections on Facebook, I saw a wide variety of responses. Lots of love. Lots of hate. Most of the things people responded negatively to--the smugness, the lack of sympathy for its characters, the unrealistically-portrayed female characters--are real facets of the book, and they are very valid reasons to disli…

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