Andrei Rubanov - "psychedel"

Whose advice should I trust in making decisions about reading a new book and getting to know the new author? I'm studying Afisha.ru, and if the text is discussed in Kommersant or Vedomosti, then it's absolutely necessary to read it. Opinion of authoritative publications, if they are not trusted, then who else?
Sometimes blind obedience leads to serious disappointments.
Repeatedly voiced "Afisha.ru" enthusiasm for the work of Andrei Rubanov could not help attracting attention. I decided to get acquainted.
So, the novel "Psychedelus". Particularly interested in the statement that the author "caught the time: what kind of people, this and the era ...". The "features of the speech etiquette of modern Muscovites" are surprisingly accurately described, etc. A reliable description of the newest time is a task that the best masters of literature can not cope with, and here such luck ...
But I did not find any luck. The set of characters seemed to be transferred from the artificial parallel reality of Oksana Robski and Sergei Minaev. A bookkeeper from a fake office, with terribly talented, professional, experiencing from the profession of delight, comparable only with the delight of "Afisha.ru" from the texts of Rubanov. At the same time, she is still incredibly beautiful, moving away from a break in relations with whom? Of course with the oil tycoon. Tired of his cocaine, drunkenness and beatings. Do you recognize? Here it is, a mold from reality, it is with such people that we stand in traffic jams and go to the subway!
There is a desire to learn about the girls of different ages from the nicks and other semi-criminal structures, which we have all organizations that are not related to the oil and gas and banking sectors, please contact. And the author drew information about their lives, probably in the works of Robsky and the publications of the journal "Liza". Such characters in reality are unlike glamorous pictures, they groan from the debility work, are exhausted by payments on loans used to fight imaginary rivals from such novels as Psihodel. Robski and Rubanov wrote, and accountants and secretaries are forced to lead an unequal battle, just like Ellochka the Ogress with Vanderbildihoy.
The described type of criminal figure of an incomprehensible status and kind of illegal activity causes no less perplexity. He predator allegedly devours people with giblets, while described with delight, like a vampire from "Twilight", which, incidentally, the text has a separate confession. The thief as the master of life and the role model disappeared about fifteen years ago, he was trampled first by oligarchs at the pledge auctions, and then a new elite from the Lubyanka passed by the skating rink. And there are no such figures left. Nutrient-swallowing metaphors related to the worldview of a hero, a predator and a swallow, and a realized heroine as the fundamental principle of the relationship between people - this is probably the author's philosophy, so intrusive, literally through a line all this is served. Everyone is eating each other, you are either food, or a predator, and also food for a larger predator - it's not serious to say this. In any case, the images of the main characters are not convincing enough for the artistic proof of such radical ideas. Perhaps the strange name of the novel - "Psihodel", reflects just the pathology of the heroes, reflecting on similar topics.
A separate mention deserves an erotic scene with an attempt at self-mutilation at the time of orgasm. Direct plagiarism from the "Basic Instinct", especially inappropriate when describing the standard sexual practices as representatives of the middle class, and criminal authorities. Not about them are shot Hollywood erotic thrillers, in themselves incredibly vulgar, stupid and obsolete. It's strange that the author was inspired by such a dubious source when creating a realistic work.
The wish "Afisha.ru" - provide new benchmarks in the world of socialist capitalist realism.