Of my favourite books. Thank you for the reminder to read it again :-)
To those who didn't read it - it is a rather short novel, uncannily funny, scary, and most of all - revealing of how human societies actually work. This is one of the earlier Pelevin's works, so the style is still illustrious. Some jokes might not be immediately transparent as they are contextualized in the late USSR.
Correction: it is scary in the cthonic/transcendent sense, not that it is spooky (it's not at all).
To those who didn't read it - it is a rather short novel, uncannily funny, scary, and most of all - revealing of how human societies actually work. This is one of the earlier Pelevin's works, so the style is still illustrious. Some jokes might not be immediately transparent as they are contextualized in the late USSR.
Correction: it is scary in the cthonic/transcendent sense, not that it is spooky (it's not at all).