tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469802837653192448.post7391933222695264755..comments2024-01-12T05:23:28.237-08:00Comments on The Larryville Chronicles: Kickball Tournament Coverage / The LC's Book Club Considers Jonathan Franzen's Important New NovelNoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05295766937253277420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469802837653192448.post-89975810855818494342010-08-17T20:03:52.814-07:002010-08-17T20:03:52.814-07:00Ok. I admittedly like Franzen. Can't help it...Ok. I admittedly like Franzen. Can't help it. I liked Strong Motion, Twenty-Seventh City, and The Corrections, and I really liked How To Be Alone. But I've been reading a lot of David Foster Wallace stuff of late and have decided that everything good about Franzen is a rip-off of Wallace. The notion that we read to be less alone? Came from Wallace early on in their friendship. The dad-is-crazy and cruiseliner-as-symbol-of-being-trapped-in-upper-middle-class-insanity business of The Corrections? Wallace wrote a thing about cruiseliners. I'm sure FRanzen can die happy now that, like Wallace, he's been on the cover of Time. And yes, intertextuality blah blah blah... It's too fishy for me.EWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469802837653192448.post-46379121583702096052010-08-16T09:45:51.642-07:002010-08-16T09:45:51.642-07:00shiiiiiiiiiit. Asteroid Head is out....too many dr...shiiiiiiiiiit. Asteroid Head is out....too many drukz....or dropped ballz.ASSTERDOID HEADhttp://www.asteroidhead.comnoreply@blogger.com