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Porcine Racist Russian Oligarchs Are Funny

By:
Jon Surfs
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I've had this book sitting on my desk for a month now, and I keep meaning to write a review of it. The problem is, it's an awfully hard book to review. This satire of everything stars Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th richest man in Russia. Misha's lone goal in life is to return to the US, where he spent his college and young adult years, and where he has a girlfriend of sorts. Alas, he cannot return -- his father, a ganster, has killed an American, and the U.S. Embassy won't let him get a visa.

Posted in Submitted by jonsurfs on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 11:02am.

Diety Decapitated by Janjaweed

By:
Jon Surfs
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Admittedly, when I first picked up this book, the lines from the Joan Osborne song “One of Us," a song that I have since been able to banish back to the portion of my cerebral cortex still obsessed with 1995. In God Is Dead, the title character takes the form of a Dinka woman in Darfur who, after meeting with Colin Powell (portrayed as a Samuel L.

Posted in Submitted by jonsurfs on Tue, 10/16/2007 - 5:36pm.