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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book on the strength of a recommendation following google's announcement of a prize for putting something (anything) dubiously useful on the moon. Despite what some might say is a dated satire of a now defunct regime, Pelevin's Omon Ra is still enjoyable. The regime may be defunct, but t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6164634">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[With this book I was introduced to the glorius adult book space. Book is insanely metaphysical and allegoric that everyone understands it in various original ways. A must.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The gigantic Rube Goldberg device known as the former Soviet Union is served up with all of its improbable pieces via this surreal take on the space program.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin (1998)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A brusque read I cruised for in my first weeks in Moscow, and what a treat for an American gal deeply aware of the Cold War remnants while strutting about Red Square.  If you're in the mood for something dark, satirical and Russian, do it up.  It fit right in with my Bulgakov.  It's very short; you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25319343">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fucking funny as hell.  The sort of jet black, Bulgakov sense of humor comes out in spades.  Lectures on the Marxist-Leninist dialectic of the Moon, socialist messages in outer space, arguments about Pink Floyd, all are found in this decidedly surreal, madcap, quasi-sci-fi adventure, perfect for bot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32755216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Named by his father after the Soviet OMON, the Interior Ministry riot police, Omon, a Soviet astronaut, renames himself Ra after the Egyptian sun god. As he approaches his final crisis, Omon reflects on the lies he's told and on the one that has just been revealed to him--that the Soviet space program (that he's based his entire life upon) is entirely other than what it purports to be. As Omon tries to reconcile the events of his life, he remembers what a Colonel of the KGB once told him, &quot; ... the more consciously you perform your feat of heroism, the greater will be the degree of truth.&quot; The ensuing truths he uncovers are astonishing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would really recommend this quirky experimental novel on space travel. It's a very witty and humoristic criticism of the soviet regime, which denounces the multiple frauds in the name of communism. Pelevin created a completely insane universe, where young men with dreams of spacetravel and discove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30629025">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I shouldn't have stopped reading this half way through and then picked it up again months later...The translation from Russian to English is prickly at times, the story is interesting though -at times firecly interesting, but I didn't prefer the writing style or the unneccessary rambling bits of cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18230944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Don't get me wrong, I love Pelevin as much as the next girl. This just happens to be one of the lousiest translations of Russian to English that I have ever read. Pelevin is a beautiful, musical, precise writer, which makes it that much more painful to read pages and pages of inconsistant, slo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5211731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Named by his father after the Soviet OMON, the Interior Ministry riot police, Omon, a Soviet astronaut, renames himself Ra after the Egyptian sun god. As he approaches his final crisis, Omon reflects on the lies he's told and on the one that has just been revealed to him--that the Soviet space program (that he's based his entire life upon) is entirely other than what it purports to be. As Omon tries to reconcile the events of his life, he remembers what a Colonel of the KGB once told him, &quot; ... the more consciously you perform your feat of heroism, the greater will be the degree of truth.&quot; The ensuing truths he uncovers are astonishing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book the demands and rewards patience. Slow to start and surreal to the point of incredulity, the book finally picks up in the back half and roars all the way to its epiphanic climax. As if Kafka had written a novel with a satisfying resolution.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderfully quirky and melancholy novel about a young Russian who dreams of going to the moon to escape his desolate Soviet-era life.  He becomes a cosmonaut, only to learn that the Soviet space program is a bizarre, desparate and surreal venture.  The book is witty, satirical, but somehow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23592619">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Omon Ra is a story of childhood dreams and illusions revealed.  It is a Russian perspective on the end of the cold war through the eyes of a child who wishes to reach the stars in a world that cannot get off the ground.  A bleak and wonderful little book.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 30 09:25:14 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read on the El. There was a point in the book when I almost yelled and chucked it down the length of the train. Everything in the plot line had seemed so....NORMAL up till that point... Thank you, book, for punching me in the face. That was very enjoyable. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This reminds me of Platonov's Foundation Pit for reasons that I won't want to give away.  It's very funny.  <br/><br/>&quot;It was then that I realized that I had drunk the vodka they had probably been looking forward to for years, and I felt really scared.&quot;  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bumbling cosmonauts, biting Cold War satire, a perfect companion to<u><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove_or:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Bomb"> one of my favorite films</a></u>. Merkwürdigliebe!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the darkest black humor book I have ever read.  It's a brilliant concept about the Soviet Space program taken to the nth degree but I found I had to put it down sometimes because it hit too hard.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i love love love this book.  i love space, or the idea of it, and the fact that everything is metallic.  it's such a great book for anyone interested in late soviet history, culture...vonderful vonderful book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read this in college for one of my Russian Culture courses, but didn't really care for it. going to re-read and see if throwing off the whole obligatory reading schtick helps. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second novel I've read by the post-Soviet author, Viktor Pelevin.  It's an interesting blend of science fiction and the &quot;illusions&quot; of reality.]]></body>
    
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