This book was one of my first purchases and has sat on my Kindle for the best part of 18 months waiting for me to get around to reading it. These days, I probably wouldn't have bought it, partly due to having 54 books in my "Purchased to Read" folder, but mainly because of the uninspiring blurb, and...
Some might say that it is wrong to invoke the names of Philip K Dick and [a:Kurt Vonnegut|2778055|Kurt Vonnegut|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1357661500p2/2778055.jpg], however I think Gary Shteyngart's imagination, social satire and storytelling are right up there with those two iconic science fic...
Abandoned and forsaken.I tried going back to reading this today. It made me feel worse than I had remembered.This is a book that is more an infection than a novel. And keeping with the themes of the book, we will say an STD in written form.The characters are just awful and seem to have nothing to li...
I think this is probably the first book where I've actually either disliked or hated just about every character in it. It is also a major downer.I think the main themes on this book are -social media makes people needy drones-corporate government is evil-dating women 20 years younger is probably not...
Super Sad True Love Story is set in a dystopian near-future USA. I found it most interesting and engaging as a satire of some of the extreme implications of materialism, social media, constant connectedness, and the global financial crisis.The actual ‘love story’ had less impact for me, partly becau...
I liked it. I wish I liked it more because it felt like I should, but I wasn't really crazy about Shteyngart's tone. This is a futuristic cast on NYC (but not too far in to the future) where everyone worships their apparat (really just an advanced cell phone, which we kind of already have), is eve...
In the midst if reading this and it's very, very funny but in a "this is absurdly over-the-top but just enough over that it seems plausible" way so you laugh but it's a "haha oh geez" kinda laugh like when you know you're well and truly fucked and all you can do is laugh. So if contemporary society ...
This book was...weird, to say the least. It's set in the near-future, and the way American society has devolved in Shteyngart's dystopia was extremely disturbing. Politically the reality made sense to me, but there were other social developments that I couldn't initially accept, or didn't see the po...
This is the kind of story I usually love, a dystopian society with characters who start off believing one thing and end up having their eyes opened. Unfortunately, this author has a way with words that made me cringe and wish it was a shorter story, way shorter. I hated his prose, hated the characte...
Really 3.5 stars, because I didn't like to put it down and take a break, but down to 3 due to my unfamiliarity with NYC and all it's geography. Scary, plausible, entertaining.
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