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From: book reviews
Date: 15 Sep 2010
Time: 09:15:36 -0500
Somehow novels these day are all postmodern, all kind of distant from real emotions. Perhaps people are. Franzen uses demotic american speech a lot, but all the characters say " you need to get off my property" or variations on, and the big themes tacked on. not bad, but no masterpiece.