| While he is no angel himself, his life has been a series of tragedies and losses: a string of failed marriages, his third wife and son lost in a school shooting, his daughter to a backroom abortion | The only difference is that he has now learned to embrace it |
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| And his regret for having spent all his time busting open the books instead of having fun weighs even heavier | What are the next steps? This had been a twisted and dark read, based in America in the near future |
Niven created a dark political satire in which the flawed narrator steals your sympathy and in twisted turn of logic, you somehow end up hoping he gets to complete his quest.
| His portrayal of political figures felt eerily spot-on and I had to remind myself that it was, luckily, just a work of fiction | This book will live rent free in my head for the rest of my life |
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| It lives in it's very own genre and it lives there in perfection | Frank has had a hard life with his 3rd wife an The book is set in 2026 in an imagined future that doesn't seem that far away |
The Ending: What it means for Brett? The book is set in 2026 in an imagined future that doesn't seem that far away.
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