The Editor dropped everything over the weekend in order to read Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, a copy of which he had obtained just a teeny bit early. Here’s a snip from his preliminary report, which is really just another plug for what he still finds to be the stickiest Franzen novel, Strong Motion.

Is it as good as The Corrections? Yes, it is as good as The Corrections. It is as least that good — so fear not. The question is a dumb one, although I’d find it a lot more interesting if people asked, instead, “Is it as good as Strong Motion?” Strong Motion is Mr Franzen’s second novel. I’ve read it twice, and loved it twice. It is as good as The Corrections and Freedom and, just possibly, better: it is not in the least little bit satirical. There are no laughs in Strong Motion, except for the kind of laughs that Dostoevsky so unwittingly prompts. Ha ha.

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