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Originally Posted by Locobot
Yeah it only won the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. I suppose people like you were the reason that Franzen was hesitant about being a part of the Oprah book club.
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The National Book Award says nothing about the quality of the book. All it says that is that it was well-liked by the judges who read it. A lot of so-called "literary fiction" that wins these awards are actually loads of crap that don't belong in the canon.