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In a very near future—oh, let’s say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant... more
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Whitney Cummings Super sad but very funny. Well, not super. It’s like a dystopian satire on the future. (Source)
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Nicholas Carr I think that novelists, and other artists, are only beginning to grapple with the implications of the Internet, smartphones and all of that. Literature provides a different and very valuable way of perceiving those implications, so I decided to end with a novel. This book is both funny and extremely horrifying. It’s set in a future that is very close in some ways to the present. Shteyngart takes phenomena and trends that are around us but we don’t even notice, pushes them a little more extreme, and suddenly it gives you a new way to think about not only where we’re heading but where we... (Source)
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Jennifer M Harris What I like about it is the way Shteyngart takes a pretty wonky concept in geoeconomics and makes it real. (Source)