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Originally Posted by tdonline
A couple of days later and I'm only 25 page further! Oh now, I want to read this book to compare. God I hope it's a faster read.
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Much faster read, IMHO, both in terms of page count (~175 pages vs. 500-plus), and in terms of pulling you along. I think it's also a book you're likely to think about afterwards.
But as someone else mentioned in this thread, a lot of it has to do whether you relate to the characters. I could connect to the main character in Barnes' book, whereas I've had no such luck with
The Stranger's Child.
I actually stopped reading
The Corrections about 100 pages in because I passed indifference and moved into actual dislike of every single character in the book and didn't want to spend another second in their company. Regardless of how good Franzen is as a writer (and technically, he is very, very good).
(Apologies to those for whom
The Corrections is all that. It just didn't work for me.)