This is well-written, but Shteyngart's vision of a future American dystopia depresses me every time I pick it up, and I just can't do depressing dystopia right now. I'll pick this up again some other time.
When I put in a hold request at the library, it defaults to "first available copy." In this case, it was a large print book. So I don't know how many pages I actually read, but it was about 100 in large print format. Which was plenty.Usually even if I don't enjoy a book, I'll read it to the end i...
Picked this book up as part of the library's book discussion group. I was excited because 'one of the best books of the year' was splashed all over its cover. While I appreciated the intelligent satire and commentary on today's internet obsessed society, I felt the emotion I was promised by the titl...
This one may really be a four star book, but I laughed a lot while reading it, because it's portrayal of the near future was funny and disturbing. I agree with someone out there who gave it two stars and said that the love between Lenny and Eunice wasn't described/evoked/established properly, underm...
I am sorry to say that I could not actually finish this book. I made it to page 90 of 334. It is full of near future techno babble, America is full of annoying, kiss-ass, credit conscious, promiscuous, self serving, youth obsessed assholes. Oh- and the cover art is among the worst I've seen. I'm gue...
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