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👓 “A person accustoms himself to what he is, after all, and if he‘s lucky he learns to hold in somewhat lower esteem all other ways of being, so as not to spend life envying them.”

(...) e já nesses vinte segundos dificuldade de aceitar que ela estava se virando sem ele, que estava trocando as marchas e apertando os pedais de um carro e tocando a vida que não o incluia; que ela não tinha simplesmente deixado de existir depois que saiu do campo de visão dele."

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Strong Motion is tough to get through even if you're a massive fan of Franzen. The characters are constantly abrasive, cruel, and unfeeling toward one another. The thriller plot isn't strong enough to hold up the action. The moving parts don't hang together terribly well. Still, it's unique in the Franzen canon, has a some really interesting voices going on, and I really liked the way Renee's written.

This is definitely one of my best impulse buys. I was at a bookstore in 2010 browsing for a book to bring on an upcoming trip to Italy and I picked this. I had never even heard of Jonathan Franzen until I brought this to work with me and my coworker told me about The Corrections and Freedom. I know a lot of people loathe Franzen, but I'm a big fan of both his fiction and nonfiction, especially The Corrections. #impulsebuy