Super Sad True Love Story [book, audiobook]

 Super Sad True Love Story [book, audiobook]

IT'S WEIRD, THIS BOOK FEELS LIKE IT HAS MORE DEPTH THAN IT NEEDED TO OR IT MEANT TO. LIKE, IT'S A PRETTY LIGHT DUMB 10 MINUTES IN THE FUTURE TYPE SCI-FI WITH A LOT OF 'EVERY TREND WILL JUST BE THE SAME BUT MORE' TYPE PREDICTIONS PLUS A STORY OF A ROMANCE.  

I DON'T KNOW THOUGH. THE VERY FIRST CHAPTER IS THAT SORT OF MURAKAMI STYLE MIDDLE AGED BIGGEST LOSER ON THE PLANET GUY MEETING A TEEN GIRL AND A GROSS FLOWERY DESCRIPTION OF HOW MUCH HE LOVES HER AND IT IMMEDIATELY HAD ME ROLLING MY EYES, BUT THEN SMASHED INTO A SECOND CHAPTER OF HER EMAILS EXPRESSING THE GUY WAS A GROSS OLD LOSER. AND IT'S A GOOD PUNCHLINE BUT THE BOOK KINDA RISES ABOVE ITSELF FOR THAT. IT NEVER GETS TO A BLACK AND WHITE CONCLUSION ON ANYTHING. THE PARENTS ARE ALL AWFUL AND ABUSIVE BUT ARE UNDER BAD CIRCUMSTANCES THEMSELVES DOING THEIR AWFUL BEST, THE RELATIONSHIP IS BAD AND THEY NEVER REALLY FALL INTO A "THEY LOVE EACH OTHER 4REAL" ENDING OR IT ALL JUST BEING THAT JOKE AGAIN AND AGAIN. IT FEELS LIKE IT LANDS ON A MORE COMPLEX "EVERYTHING IS BAD AND GOOD ALSO" STORY THAN A BOOK LIKE THIS WOULD BE EXPECTED TO. 

THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 2010 OF LIKE 30 YEARS INT HE FUTURE AND THAT ISN'T THAT LONG AGO SO THE PREDICTIONS AREN'T THAT DIFFERENT, BUT IT'S FUNNY HOW YOU CAN SEE SOME STRONG 2010ISMS SNEAK IN, LIKE THE LIBOR RATE BEING THE BIGGEST FUTURE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND HOW EVERYTHING IS OCCUPY WALSTREET TINGED. I THINK IT WEIRDLY ENDS UP BEING ONE OF THE MOST AUTHENTIC FEELING 'FALL OF AMERICA' BOOKS IN HOW MIXED AND UNDRAMATIC A LOT OF IT IS. MOSTLY THIS IS A BOOK WHERE READING IT I THOUGH "I BET THE AUTHOR LIVED THROUGH THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION" AND HE TOTALLY DID. IT'S SO PRAGMATIC ABOUT EVERYTHING.

PS. BY FAR THE BEST PREDICTION OF THE FUTURE WAS THE SOCIAL NETWORK EVERYONE IS USING, EVEN FOR BUSINESS IS "TEEN GLOBAL". THAT IS SUCH A GOOD FAKE NAME FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCIAL NETWORK

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