Jacqueline Lichtenberg 5 star review of CHOCOLATE LENIN on Amazon
One of the strangest books you'll ever read,
May 17, 2012
This review is from: Chocolate Lenin: A Novel (Paperback)
It's very hard to categorize this book, which is part of its ridiculous charm.
If
you know all about the historical figure Lenin and his relationship to
Stalin, and at least some of how Russia came to be what it is today, and
if you take all that reality-history seriously, this book could well
keep you in stitches all night.
This is a novel that requires the
reader to have some depth of context to understand and appreciate how
it's a take-off on our current reality. If you've never heard of Lenin,
this just isn't going to get to you the same way.
We argue and
even rage over political matters, but make no progress. That may well
be because we just can't laugh at ourselves hard enough to gain
perspective. This novel might restore perspective and let some progress
be made.
Chocolate Lenin postulates a "what-if" of the typical
science fiction novel - what if someone cloned Lenin? What if the clone
woke up and started walking around, being spotted, reported....
What
if those who funded the project had their delusions of power-grabbing
thwarted by a scientist who taunted them by stealing all the research
data and scattering it to the winds, creating a puzzle it would take a
super-genius to solve?
I can just imagine how much fun Graham Diamond had writing this book!