Posted by The Geecologist on Oct 24, 2010 in Lies, Truth & Lies | 0 comments

FreedomJonathan Franzen, Jonathan Franzen; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010WorldCat•Read Online•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder 
‘This was what was keeping me awake at night,’ Walter said. ‘This fragmentation. Because it’s the same problem everywhere. It’s like the internet, or cable TV – there’s never any centre, there’s no communal agreement, there’s just a trillion bits of distracting noise… All the real things, the authentic things, the honest things, are dying off.’