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The United States Of Air: A Satire (2012)

by J.M. Porup(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0988006936 (ISBN13: 9780988006935)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

J.M. Porup

review 1: Oh dear.This book showed really great promise, a wacky idea where America has abandoned its pursuit of food and abolished eating calories.The whole faux redneckisms like the misspelling of terrorist and foreign and foreigner. Funny at first, annoying as hell after seeing it more than 10 times.The whole concept of Fat Camps that are at first places like Guantanamo but later more like Auschwitz.The story has a decent enough plot, an agent investigating a murder that the secret service seem to be determined to cover-up. It's obvious who it leads to (this is given away very early in the book and you wonder how the author will sustain the remaining 3/4's of the piece) and it is set up well but the ending or rather non-ending just pisses away everything the author had establis... morehed up to that point in the plot.Almost as if he had an ending and was afraid to commit to it. Or changed his mind, and not just once but at least half a dozen times as the non-ending appears to drag itself in several directions that aren't what the plot had been setting itself up for.It's not a bad read apart from the bloody terrible ending.
review 2: I won this book through Goodreads First Reads giveaways, I'm waiting for the delivery, can't wait to read it! ^^Update:It has finally arrived! Let's see how it is...I have never read a satire before, and it leaves me uncertain ... I dare say that for a person with food disases it feeds a certain distaste for the food itself, or so it was in my case. However it made me laugh at certain points and the book is well written, the narrative flows well, making it a fairly quick read.So what can I say? ...It's not food and it is not air ... but 3 stars are deserves!And thanks to J.M. Porup and GR for the first-reads-copy! :) less

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