Strong Motion: Library Edition

from SeriousGrace

I will say right off the bat that I did not particularly enjoy Strong Motion. Had the plot been reduced to two or three story lines I think I would have liked it more. As it was, there was a lot going on in Strong Motion and I found myself getting distracted very easily. The beginning of the book...

from tixylix

I was looking forward to reading this novel because I had enjoyed The Corrections and more recently Freedom and both were gripping reads. However, I was disappointed by this book. I took it away on holiday so all the conditions for getting into a good book were right: waiting at airports, flights...

from whirled

What can be challenging about even the best of Jonathan Franzen's fiction is that his characters often seem to go so far out of their way to do the stupid or cruel thing. One of his earlier works, Strong Motion shows that Franzen's extraordinary writing skills were already in evidence, but his ch...

from trentsky

Franzen certainly has a way with words and there are many passages of beautiful writing in the pages of this book. This story at times felt a little forced, although it kept me interested to the end. One particularly engaging chapter that really grabbed me was at first blush totally and completel...

from Wassilissa

Nachdem Franzen mit den "Korrekturen" und "Freiheit" bekannt wurde, erlebten auch seine ersten Bücher weitere Auflagen, u.a. dieses hier von 1992. Eine dysfunktionale Familie wird dargestellt, deren Mutter 22 Millionen Dollar erbt, die zum Großteil in einer Chemiefirma stecken. Diese scheint für ...