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by Gary Shteyngart

Amy Reads Books rated it

14 years ago

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Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story is set in a near-future, where the world as we know it as changed dramatically. Money is now mainly concentrated in Scandinavia and China, and America-where the story is set-is almost totally bankrupt, has been fighting an unpopular war in Venezula and is ...

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Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it

14 years ago

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The author of Super Sad True Love Story takes us to a dystrophic alternate reality where The United States is in an unending war with Venezuela, its economy is in free fall having been tagged to the Chinese Yuan and is teetering on collapse. This is a capitalistic 1984 with Big Brother replaced by a...

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nessochist rated it

14 years ago

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Equal parts unnerving, depressing and annoying.

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willemite rated it

14 years ago

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Updated August 2, 2013 - see cool extra links at bottomBy reading this review you are denying its existence and implying your agreement with its contents. Gary Shteyngart takes a peek twenty minutes into the future. No shades required. His alter-ego, Lenny Abramov, is a 39-year-old slacker busily wa...

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Intensely Focused rated it

14 years ago

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To be honest, I had to force myself to finish. I know it's supposed to be this really insightful look into America but I have a very hard time caring about vapid characters and every major character in the book (with the possible exception of Sally) was vapid. The protagonist may be well read but ...

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Nutti's muses rated it

14 years ago

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This book will probably make my top ten books I've read this year. Lenny's story is equal parts funny, sad, and scary. An interesting look at future America. Double speak is very reminiscent of 1984 .

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