Super Sad True Love Story

Gary Shteyngart has failed me. True, he probably wasn't aware that he had a responsibility to me, personally, but (in most cultures) ignorance of the law is seldom sufficient cause to dismiss the crime. Shteyngart's crime is that he has written what appears to be an awful book. (I say 'what appears......more

Oh, did I read this book at the exact wrong time of my life. It's about a thirty-nine year old guy who is quickly losing what small traces of cool he ever had to middle-age as he is relentlessly mocked by a youth culture that finds him old, disgusting and out of touch. I’m forty, very nearly forty-on......more

Updated August 2, 2013 - see cool extra links at bottom By reading this review you are denying its existence and implying your agreement with its contents. Gary Shteyngart takes a peek twenty minutes into the future. No shades required. His alter-ego, Lenny Abramov, is a 39-year-old slacker busily wa......more

wow WoW WOW!! Am mightily impressed with this modern classic. Finally, someone with the guts to paint our beloved NYC in a perpetually negative, apocalyptic light. (Is Gary Shteyngart the only one to do this, um, ever?) Romance in war in an alternative reality of modern(ish) day America--so hard to p......more

BookFiendUSA: I see that you’ve been reading Super Sad True Love Story. Cute title, big hype. What’s it about? SandyBanks1971: It’s about this guy, Lenny Abramov, second-generation Russian Jewish-American, who is in his “very late thirties” and very bothered about it. He thinks that’s he’s a RAG who......more