Super Sad True Love Story

Super Sad True Love Story

2001 • 521 pages

Ratings26

Average rating3.4

15

Middled-aged, hand wringing New York Jew falls for almost inappropriately young Asian girl? Stop me if you've heard this before. Set in some not too distant, post literate dystopia where people are glued to their mobile devices texting ackronymanically with ROFLAARP and TIMATOV while obsessing over their credit scores, rating each others fuckability in real-time and shopping at places called AssLuxury... It's just all too very. Maybe this sort of winking irony is just lost on me.

I do have to say that as an otherwise illiterate second generation, Westernized (corrupted) Korean I got a cheap thrill managing to translate the mangled Kor-Engrish sprinkled throughout. Mu-she-suh indeed.

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