Darlings, This Is The Voice Of An Entire Generation!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, girls, we have begun Jonathan Franzen's healded novel, "Freedom," and I can tell you this Queen is raving!!!!!!!!! Not even 70pgs in and already I can tell you this is the Book Of The Year!!!!!!!!!! Staring at the title page is like seeing the Selznick logo flash on the screen when you know the film ahead is going to be "Gone With The Wind." Franzen's book has that same, sweeping pulse once it gets started. On some level it is more ighthearted than "The Coreections," but no less afraid to be socially lacerating. Which we just love, darlings, because this society of entitled baby boomers has been tanking things for years. And now finally is daring to speak out about this--namely Mr. Franzen--and some, like Miss Jennifer Weiner, are getting SO bent out of shape.

That is, if Ms. Weiner can bend to any degree. Let's face it, she is not Donna McKechnie. Hey, Jennifer, stop scarfing down cupcakes, and pay attention to the claims you make about white male writers with MFA's. Mr. Franze, a grad of Swathmore, is certainly one of the most educated American extant, but he never went through any kind of MFA program. So your whole campaign goes out the window--flush the toilet, hon, then try and flush those pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me further say, girls, that despite his being cute as a button (now don't you worry, Monsieur Davide, he is not as cute as YOU), I could care less about what Mr. Franzen does or does not do sexually, but I care a lot about what he does textually. And--OH, MY GOD!!!!!!! Nailing American suburbia to its own wall, chronicling in a female voice a real Diane Dykeman type, showing how such types and the favoritism society places on them eventually leads to their downfall, while tapping into just about everything else wrong with the Boomer generation, Mr. Franzen's prose style is sweeping and fluid, catching you by the throat and never letting go. Some have claimed it the most readable novel since "Gone With The Wind," and I am not sure they are wrong. But it is a bit more philosophically challenging (which does not mean I love GWTW any less), which is why it is creating so many divided camps. This camp, honey, is in Franzen's corner, and you can bet "Freedom" will rate a reread from me. I may assign it to my book group.

Off the lit track for a second--two bad we did not know about Amisher Chester Mast, that child rapist in Missouri. He would have made an excellent Bitch Of The Week. It is all in the timing, girls. I am certainly satisfied with Melinda Loveless because that harlot deserves HELL for what she did, and it is about time her loathsomeness was chronicled by us on her, darlings.

Now I must get back to "Freedom!" I am telling you, girls, you simply cannot show yourself in society if you haven't read it! Don't be caught short at parties this sesason, loves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!