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The Corrections
- Lu par : Dylan Baker
- Durée : 9 h et 50 min
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Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Frazen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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Starred Review, Booklist
"When critics refer to 'The Great American Novel' this is it, people!" (Oprah Winfrey)
"The brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years." (Pat Conroy)
"This is, simply, a masterpiece." ( Amazon.com)
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Just wondering
- 25/11/2008
Excellent livre audio
Un livre cruel et drôle, extrêmement bien écrit. L'auteur déploie une
imagerie complètement déjantée mais hyper efficace au service d'un
portrait de famille sans complaisance.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
- Charles Elmore
- 06/01/2004
A memorable book; flawless narration
For once the publisher's summary has got it right. The broad character sketches and plot synopses that it offers are dead on, and without a doubt Jonathan Franzen has written a brilliant novel. I would also like to add, as many others have mentioned, that Dylan Baker, the narrator of this piece, is one of the best narrators I've heard so far. He truly adds a depth to these characters that is astonishing; he literally becomes each character.
The Corrections follows the lives of five family members, each with their own unique problems. All of these characters are fully developed and none are stereotypes -- each character is a decidedly different shade of gray. And despite the summary's emphasis on Enid, the wife and mother, of the novel's five characters, I would have to say that the story most belongs to Denise, the daughter, whose eyes seem to see more clearly than anyone else's here.
I cannot say when I first became hooked into this story, which is actually a collection of character vignettes that crisscross over one another before finally uniting in the last few chapters; but I know I surrendered early on. At nine hours this book is a saga that only gets more interesting the longer you read it. As some have mentioned, the characters do tend to do hateful things to each another, and one could classify this book as depressing in tone; yet somehow one doesn't feel depressed while reading it, only uplifted. The Corrections is a fascinating, insightful, and satisfying book that leaves you thinking about it long after you've put it down.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Todd
- 07/05/2003
Wonderful study of growing old
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Hilarious and deeply moving, you find yourself alternately laughing at, abhoring, hating, and loving each disfunctional person in this family as the author digs deeper and deeper into their past and present states of mind. and just for a thoughtful look into the mind of old age and how parkinsons might be like, it's worth it. You think that this author is never going to be able to rescue these people in my mind. But he does. They do redeem themselves, if only in becoming human enough, in spite of all their failings, they do something kind. And I love them for it. It's everything I like in a book. Highly recommend it.
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Global1 out of 5 stars
- Joan E. Bahur
- 16/01/2003
Ugly, brutish, and not short enough
This book is full of unlikeable people doing offensive things to themselves and each other. Alzheimer's disease is no picnic, but the author gives you nothing to work with to sympathize with the victim here. In fact, he does a good job of making it seem like the old man deserves it, like everyone in the book deserves it.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- A. Compton
- 07/09/2005
I L-O-V-E this book!
Coming from a completely dysfunctional family myself it was so refreshing to read this book. There was no pat ending, no great epiphany that suddenly made all the characters become different people, no redemption, and no deliverance. Just a bunch a crazy people (and aren't we all) trying to wrench a little fun and a little excitement from their lives before they die. Its wonderful and funny and sad and very realistic. I thought it was terrific. I wish audible was set up for recomendations, i.e. if you enjoyed X, you might also enjoy Y. I would love something else along these same lines.
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- Gary
- 22/04/2006
People you might not want to know
Though well written and very well narrated, "The Corrections" is a sad book about a family of pathological characters, on a series of mutually colliding courses with fate and each other.
Each chapter is told from a different character's point of view, complete with the rawest and most selfish of thoughts. I found it cumulatively UNpleasant to 'be' these people, who seem to have never contemplated a selfless act or a noble thought.
In their professional and personal lives, this group seems to have logged quite impressive failures, varying mainly whether their demolition was abrupt or continual.
If you can maintain a distance, the characterizations are quite witty and maybe even the insights are worth hearing. I felt that this made the reading even MORE depressing, since the destruction was viewed by the author as funny and his tone is relentlessly glib.
I don't think I'd want to be friends with Jonathan Franzen.
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- Mike
- 28/01/2003
Well-written but shallow
There's a lot of words but not a lot of depth to this novel. In trying to tie together family and corporate greed and the heartland and America and mental illness, Frazen covers a lot of ground but spreads it too thin. There's some good moments, but it's sort of like driving through Nebraska -- it's a lot of flat land to travel hoping you might see something interesting.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
- Alan J
- 24/02/2004
Characters Reverberate
Finished this book 3 weeks ago and have since listened to two other audio books, but the words of Franzens' characters continue replaying in my head (perhaps this is partly attributable to the narrator's superb performance. Some books I can't wait to finish, but when this one ended I wanted more.
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Global3 out of 5 stars
- Anthony
- 01/01/2006
Almost ...
This was one of the most skillfully done abridgments I've come across - no sense at all that vital material was being left out. Unfortunately the narration was only adequate. Some of the voices were good, others not quite there. As has been pointed out, this is a depressing book, but there are passages of astounding literary brilliance. Often made me think of Roth and Bellow.
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Global3 out of 5 stars
- Julie Ann Koehler
- 30/04/2006
Depressing
I've had this book for months now and can only listen to an hour at a time before I'm so depressed I turn it off. It's smartly written and engaging but overwhelmingly dark. Not a well adjusted character for miles of prose in this novel. It's probably a very realistic book about family turmoil and failed relationships, but who wants something that realistic in their pastime reading? I use books to escape from reality, not drown in it.
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Global1 out of 5 stars
- emr
- 06/04/2005
Not for me
I am a long-time audio book listener, and have enjoyed many different types of books. Although I don't consider myself a "Polyanna type" I do like my books to have some kind of redeeming qualities. I'm afraid this book seemed more depressing than remarkable.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- folgren
- 24/12/2007
Im Poesiealbum
Es könnte alles so schön sein. Die Familie Lambert besitzt alles, was man zu einem glücklichen Leben braucht. Keiner muß Hunger leiden, sie alle haben ihr Schicksal selber in der Hand. Und doch ist es wie in vielen Familien. Irgendwie, irgendwo ist was schiefgelaufen. Die Krankheit des Vaters, Parkinson, ist fast ein Synonym für die gesamte Familie. Sie wird durchgeschüttelt, ist dabei so mit sich beschäftigt, daß man nicht unbedingt davon ausgehen darf, daß sie dabei wachgerüttelt werden wird. Wie Jonathan Franzen mit viel Humor von der Tragik der bürgerlichen Familie erzählt, dabei rechts und links auf unsere Gesellschaft blickt, ist wunderbar leicht, lesenswert. Er versinkt nicht in die Versuchung eines Familienschmökers, sein Blick auf die Figuren ist schonungslos. Er verzeiht ihnen trotzdem, aber ob sie mit sich selbst Nachsicht verüben werden, das wird sich im Verlauf der Geschichte zeigen müssen. Wall Street, Internet, Osteuropa und die familiy values, die Hoffnung der Mutter, die Familie zu Weihnachten Zuhause um sich zu versammeln, die Gegenwart ist in diesem Roman fest verankert. Sie träumen alle auf ihre eigene Art. Und nicht nur sie müssen sich fragen lassen, warum alles so schwierig ist. Ein umfangreicher Roman voller poetischer Stellen, bizarren Momenten und selbst die Liebe fehlt nicht. So glaubt man halt mit ein paar Korrekturen bestens zurechtzukommen.
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- cspreter
- 06/04/2011
Korrekturen nötig!
Im Vergleich zu "Freiheit" von Franzen, ein Roman, der Potential hat ein Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte zu werden (siehe meine Rezension an betreffender Stelle), finde ich sein hochgelobtes Erstlingswerk schwach. Der Adlerblick noch in der Entwicklungsphase, auch der Schreibstil noch ungeschliffen, das Weiterlesen eher mühsam meines Empfindens nach. Die Figuren haben Potential zur Weiterentwicklung, bleiben allerdings in diesem Werk "flat characters". Liest man dieses Werk zuerst, entsteht sicherlich ein anderer Eindruck, folgt die Lektüre allerdings auf den Lesegenuss von FREEDOM, kann man meines Erachtens nur enttäuscht werden.
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