by George Saunders
The title story is the best - Saunders is like an educational version of Adult Swim, with a little Jonathan Swift thrown in. I skipped the last story (lost interest).
This gets four stars though it wasn't as good as "Pastoralia." Still it was well pitched and extremely funny. Saunders' dialogue is perfect. My favorite stories were "Bohemians," "Brad Carrigan," "CommComm," and "My Flamboyant Grandson." Ok, "The Red Bow" and "My Amendment" were also very entertaini...
The first 4 stories in this book are delightfully, satirically funny! They are very clever commentary on our current American lifestyle. The very last story (commcomm) has some absolutely hilarious, laugh-out-loud lines poking fun at ultra-religious people and govt. bureaucrat-speak.The rest of the ...
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