I’m assuming most of you have already seen the nytimes’ list of best books of 2006, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to repeat how I didn’t like Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan. It has been reviewed all over the place, including Germany’s Die Zeit, which called the author ”as evil as Borat and funnier than Nabakov.”
I couldn’t get more than half-way through it without falling asleep. Slapstick humor is not my cup of tea. My roommate Eric had more or less the same experience, thoughhe was more impressed upon seeing Shteyngart in person at a reading we were at in Seattle.
