Title: Ugh.
Product review: Probably the worst book I ever read. Oh, why you ask? Because the writing was annoying, the characters shallow, the narration pretentious. It takes more than snide comments about "life in America these days" to make a good novel. Satire is so often on a lowest level of art, because it presumes to show "us" (whoever "us" is) how shallow and absurd "our" lives are. However it completely misses the mark when the readers life is not shallow, boring or controlled by what's in the aisles of supermarkets. Social criticism in literature is so tedious and common, written so that the "intelligent observers" can have a generic laugh at "society" and feel superior. I am not impressed.
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