Please post your
recommendations for summer reading here. (Fiction only, please.)
I like all genres, as long as it’s
imaginative and original. My most recent finds are:
“Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood - A frightfully
convincing vision of the not-too-distant future. Where bioengineered chicken nuggets grow on “trees”, executions are
the most popular form of internet porn, and drug companies compete by trying to design viruses that their
competitors can’t cure.
“In the Miso Soup” by Ryu Murakami - A psycho-thriller about a young man that works
as a tour guide for Americans that want to experience the seedier side of Tokyo’s night life.
“Homo
Zapiens” by Victor Pelevin - A dark satire in which former apparatchiks from the Ministry of Propaganda dominate the
advertising industry in post-communist Russia.