Unabridged Audiobook
Could have been a good story but the characters fall flat. Every one of them is ripped from a painful - and uninteresting - stereotype. Attempt to sympathize with sexual predators. No thanks.
After having read two other Franzen Novels, I looked forward to reading Purity. Unfortunately I found it to be too long, the plot and subplots often dull, and the characters hardly believable.
A good book - but not an altogether completed piece. Jenna Lamia does an excellent job narrating the role of Kip, but I can't help but feel that Dylan Baker doesn't come off well when he reads the part for Andreas- but that may also be because I find the character itself immensely irritating. There is some dialogue that is, as one critic said, 'clearly only the way writers think that ordinary people talk,' but I thought the book read well as a whole - right up until the ending, which felt rushed and unworthy of everything else which came before it. I don't know if an author has ever failed a character quiet the way Franzen fails Annabelle. In the end, it feels like the author just wanted to be done with the project.
Oh the webs we weave. Long at times. Often unlikely. But thoroughly enjoyed.
It's a great Book and story about secrets, lies, mother-love or lack of and what makes people commit crime etc. The story is at times too long but it is filled with masterpieces of writing and interesting facts/fantasy. It haven't read his previous books but I will.
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