Book Review: Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart

This is part of the continuing series of random book reviews that'll be nothing like a New York Times book review. Gone is the ten thousand word analysis. Instead, here is a book review like you'd tell your friends.



The book: Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.

[30 pages in]: Okay, a little funny. Fast paced, a bit unique. Lenny is whiny, but I can live with it.

[75 pages in]: Eunice is...unpleasant.

[110 pages in]: "Funny" is now on the side of a milk carton.

[145 pages in]: The last funny guy named Lenny was Lenny Bruce. And he's dead.

[210 pages in]: Is this supposed to be the blending of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984, or just the bastard of a blog entry and a Tiny Tim song?

[265 pages in]: I think Shteyngart is repeating paragraphs.

[266-300 pages in]: Yup, he's repeating paragraphs.

[352 pages in]: Alrighty. Time to place this in one of those book recycling bins.