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Marc-Uwe Kling: QualityLand (2017, Ullstein Verlag GmbH) 4 stars

Review of 'QualityLand' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I've never before read a book that made me laugh so much while wondering whether I shouldn't actually rather be sad and/or worried about what I laugh at.

QualityLand might be classed as a humourous dystopian novel, if there is such a thing.
In a not so far-off future in what once was Germany, now rebranded as QualityLand, there lives a man whose life isn't going as dreamed, to say the least. In a world where basically any decision is taken from you and given to algorythms who calculate what you want based on your online profile and data, it can be quite a nuisance when that profile proves faulty. Which is Peter's problem.
So, like any proper unlikely hero, he goes out into the world to fix it, or the world, with the help of illegal hackers, a dysfunctional sex-robot, an e-poetess suffering from writer's block, an acrophobic drone, a communist handheld device, and a pink dolphinshaped sex-toy.

This book is absurd, hilarious, and awfully realistic.