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SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart (book trailer)

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xchubbyxwubbyx Says:

May 14, 2012 - can someone help me answer some questions? how does he write a book when he cant read?

Daisy Muller Says:

May 9, 2012 - watch my version on 'muhemhem' on my utube page!!!!!! :)

FreeGurl13 Says:

Mar 16, 2012 - Franco is soo cute :)

JesseMcCartney69 Says:

Mar 5, 2012 - Had FRANCO not been in this video, it would have had 23 views.

marili5770 Says:

Feb 21, 2012 - "They're not wolves they're bears........warebears" xD love Franco

HeroOfTheSidewalk Says:

Feb 17, 2012 - Well, they accomplished their goal. I now want to read this. :P

liarcoolnovel Says:

Feb 12, 2012 - I love an author who know how to make a funny video!

vitaminC7657 Says:

Feb 2, 2012 - James Franco is forever my husband and everything....but damn! I wasn't expecting 2:24. He looks TERRIBLE!

RoflcopterFailboat Says:

Feb 1, 2012 - James Franco is high as fuck lolol

hotpink1341 Says:

Jan 29, 2012 - This so sad, if your sad after watching this then i think you should watch my new video, its super funny and called, american idol hillbilly style.... Try it an please commet

justinbieberfan1250 Says:

Jan 28, 2012 - muhemhem. that is all.

duygusenagocer1 Says:

Jan 22, 2012 - james franco is always hot!! :D

rostomjam Says:

Jan 17, 2012 - 2:39 - 2:42 love itt werebears :)

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juevelinoz Says:

Jan 5, 2012 - It's a dull trailer for such a good book.

DaisyRockabella Says:

Dec 20, 2011 - mu hem hem

lynnz77 Says:

Dec 15, 2011 - What the hell was that? Absolutely painful to watch, and the old guys hitting on the students was gross.

ifittakesawaythepain Says:

Oct 23, 2011 - This is hilarious, I want to meet Gary Shteyngart so badly.

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kiwimatt1 Says:

Oct 6, 2011 - This trailer is wince inducing. Kind of like the main character in the book. If I wasn't already halfway through it, I would give it a miss after seeing this.

kiwimatt1 Says:

Oct 6, 2011 - This trailer is wince inducing. Kind of like the main character in the book. If I wasn't already halfway through it, I would give it a miss after seeing this.

NovaScotiaChick Says:

Oct 2, 2011 - None of the characters in this clip would entice me to read the book. It's way over the top. Is it a children's book? It's a lame attempt at humour.

GveMeLbrtylGveMeIPad Says:

Sep 5, 2011 - This guy sucks

GveMeLbrtylGveMeIPad Says:

Sep 5, 2011 - Accurate author-thus country,it's freedom,it's health,and it's sanity-in a supposedly better Canada,in Montreal 50% of the citizens on antidepressants. Western human kinds has gone from using tech to worshipping and serving technology. I'm not a strongly religious person,but it's is obvious we are approaching what Christians would call the end times.

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Watch the hilarious trailer for Gary Shteyngart's new novel, SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY with guest star James Franco, and others! The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. In a very near future—oh, let's say next Tuesday—a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called Post-Human Services, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn't it? Lenny's from a different century—he totally loves books (or "printed, bound media artifacts," as they're now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our "ancient dork" effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America proves less flame-resistant than Lenny's new threads. The country is crushed by a credit crisis, riots break out in New York's Central Park, the city's streets are lined with National Guard tanks on every corner, the dollar is so over, and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Undeterred, Lenny vows to love both Eunice and his homeland. He's going to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, in a world where single people can determine a dating prospect's "hotness" and "sustainability" with the click of a button, in a society where the privileged may live forever but the unfortunate will die all too soon, there is still value in being a real human being. Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Super Sad True Love Story is a knockout novel by a young master, a book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart. Learn more: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400066407 Less