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My trouble with zeitgeisty books is that the zeitgeist has usually got up and gone by the time I get around to reading the book! Super Sad True Love Story is a 2010 novel set in the near future, but the world Shteyngart describes already seems dated. In 2012, we have bigger things to worry about than the decline of America. I think this book is less a prediction about things to come than a recording of the fears and preoccupations of particular class of people living at a particular time. It doe
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Eh. This book didn't really do it for me, although for a bit at the end I was sucked in to what was happening. I often find books that are about the near future with a lot of nearly recognizable techno-babble to be clever, but nothing more. I thought this book need more story and more relate-able characters.
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Frightengly prescient. Gorgeous and sad writing. It's rare that a book gets better as it moves towards the end. I was actually astonished at times. This is a tale for today.
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