"Now she was mirroring Daddy. Really, the key to being less odd was to develop your artificial intelligence. Daddy had once mentioned creating a computer program that would flash the most obvious next line of conversation right into your eye. You could go through the whole day thinking about important things and just letting the program prompt you every time you had to open your mouth."
I'm reading "Vera, or Faith: A Novel," by Gary Shteyngart (commission earned).
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Here - just take this pill and go lie down in the casket
The great fun of Shteyngart’s novels has always been in the delightful self consciousness of his writing more than is his half realized characters and half baked story. Then again, no living writer, and hardly any dead one but Joseph Heller, is Shteyngart’s equal in the delightfully self conscious department.
Can't say the quoted bit grabbed me. Does the book have a good cover?
My Mother the Car (1965-1966)
Starring Jerry Van Dyke, Ann Sothern , Maggie Pierce, Cindy Eilbacher, Avery Schreiber , and Randy Whipple
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