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Title: Hilarious It Isn't!
Review: Reviewers who rave about this book must not read much. It isn't a totally uninteresting story but would have been better published as a short story. The blurb from The Times on the book's jacket said "Extremely funny" but my guess is the complete quote was "With this premise, this book should be extremely funny, but it isn't." It was mildly interesting but you could tell it was a first book as the writing was rather clumsy and she repeated herself a lot.I do believe the author's attempt to draw an allegory about Russia and the USSR versus the capitalist west was clever but she just didn't pull it off sufficiently to satisfy.Perhaps my reading of this book suffered most because it followed a reading of Saturday by Ian McEwan, a masterpiece. Don't get me wrong; this book had it's moments but there just weren't enough of them.
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