Nothing of their personality will remain. I'm glad I wrote all over these pages because I can't wait to read it again.Today I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die. I still loved every sad, lovely, moment of this novel. I loved being able to recognize some of Lenny's diary entries (first one: Do not go gently into that goodnight)Īnd yes, I got it right away that Lenny loved Eunice for her youth, which he no longer had. I loved how I knew that the bowler hat was "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and I loved how I have read that book and could understand why it was used in this particular novel for Lenny. I loved how women were still sex objects but now men were, too. I loved the technology and I loved how every time I read about GlobalTeen I thought of Facebook.
She said she cared for Lenny, for her sister, and I believe she did but, in the end, it was destined to be hard for both of them. But, what more could you ask from a young girl who was psychologically and physically abused? She acted the way a young girl totally obsessed with herself would act.
I did feel like this might be our generations "1984" possible or maybe it's just a really great novel about what could happen to a society that constantly borrows money from China. I applaud him for being able to handle so many different voices and personalities while also creating text speak and "youth speak" all the while making to sure to give Lenny the depth and self-centeredness we all contain. I really enjoyed Shteyngart's tone and word usage. Of course I wonder what it was like in the suburbs, more intimately than when Lenny visits his parents, but, what a disturbing and sad and lovely book.
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