The Corrections is as good as all the critics are making it out to be, and this is definitely Franzen's best book so far. Though I liked Strong Motion almost as much, The Corrections is clearly a more mature work. All of the pieces fit together nicely, the characters all have substantial depth, and the writing is beautifully polished. A lot of the pop culture references that I noticed are outside of the mainstream (the tangential Stephen Malkmus cameo, for example), which makes me wonder how many I missed completely.