Great book, excellent writing; a little too descriptive of strife in Lithuania for one of the family members in the story but overall an entertaining well visualized a story of the life of an american family whose dad has a form of dementia and how the mother tries to bring them together for the holidays for seemingly one last time. I would recommend this to anyone.

brilliantly written and poignant at times but sometimes confusing and too wordy for me.

I enjoyed this more than Freedom. The characters are vivid - lovable and hateful, dysfunctional family but human and forgivable. Quirky and funny as well as tear jerking.

I liked Franzen's next book Freedom, more than this one but Corrections has its merits too. I didn't expect the books to be as politically charged as they were. There is a lot of varying views and opinions floating around in the pages of these books which is interesting to read but can also tend to drag on for a little too long. The arguments to the points of view were however, well written. Another point that can be said about this writing style is that it can at times get graphic. I was actually surprised this was an Oprah book club choice (not why I read it FYI) because there were some fairly disturbing deviant moments. One thing I disliked about this book and Freedom, is that they seemed too much alike. I read them one after the other and at times it felt like I was reading the exact same story. Granted it's the same writer so there should be some likeness but they seemed as if they could almost be a continuation of the same family into the next. I would recommend this book to all the extroverted and opinionated open-minders out there looking for an semi-intellectual read.

Wow. What a great book. It took me a few pages before it grabbed me, but once it did... I devoured it. Highly recommend this book if you're looking for rich, well-formed characters, clever turns of phrase, and a compelling story line. Very John Irving-esque.

Borrowed from SL based in a review of one of Franzen's later works on NPR. This was a great read that was a true page-turner. I kept wanting to know what was next for Chip, Denise, Enid, Albert, and Enid.

I read this book weeks ago and find myself still thinking about the characters and their lives. It's fascinating, captivating and an extremely worthwhile read (it's a long one) -- entertaining from the very beginning until the very end.

This is an excellent book for a book club. We had one of our most dynamic conversations when my book club read it. Franzen is adapting it for an HBO television series, which could be interesting.

2001 National Book Award - Fiction

Wow, I can't believe I slogged through the whole thing. I kept thinking, it's supposed to be great it's GOT to get better, but it didn't. To quote another comment 'tedious, verbose.' Some people write just to see themselves write. I find Mr. Franzen neither as talented or interesting as he seems to think he is.