A book recommendation

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So my commuter reading for the past few days has been Neal Stephenson's The Big U, a nightmarish satire of university life and the author's first novel back in 1984. I recommend it especially for BU students, since Stephenson went to BU himself as an undergrad, and the "Plex" in which the novel is set is clearly a dystopian and oversized Warren Towers gone feral. There's even an analogue to the Citgo Sign, which a cult of drug-addled students worship as a god.

Oh, and there are whacked-out LARPers and giant rats and a much higher body count than, I hope, anyone's real college experience.