One million years in the future, a man recounts humanity's origins in the Galapagos islands.This was the third Kurt Vonnegut book I've read and my third favorite. Actually, it reminds me of one of Grandpa Simpson's rambling stories that circles back on itself, only with novel-y bits like themes and...
I think Vonnegut has beaten me to this idea. I thought, I was the only one with a view that the psychology of homo-sapiens is holding this planet a hostage. But Vonnegut saw it many decades before me, and this is what makes him one of my heroes. Very few authors make it to my 'fan's list", and I am ...
like a lot of people, I discovered Kurt Vonnegut my 17th year, and then was enthralled to discover this eccentric, zany writer inhabiting a totally private universe--and if this happened to be in the 90s rather than the 60s, which first marked Vonnegut's breakout in the decade of love and flowers an...
HAH! Look at the list of characters: Kilgore Trout, Leon Trotsky Trout, James Wait, Andrew MacIntosh Walkies!#77. TBR Busting 20133* Slaughterhouse V (want to re-read)5* Mother Night3* God Bless You, Mr Rosewater3* GalápagosTR A Man Without a CountryTR BlubeardTR Deadeye Dick4* God Bless You, Dr. K...
Galapagos is not your usual cup of tea of a book. Which is pretty much the same comment everyone could make for every novel by *Kurt Vonnegut (he omitted that "Jr" of him since he became rather famous).And it's true how Vonnegut's lovers can find many of the main obsessions of good old Kurt here. Fr...
Rewritten after rereading in July 2012.This darkly humorous satire starts with a world financial crisis in 1986 (hopefully that’s where the similarity with current times ends), leading to WW3 – though it’s not really about either: it’s fundamentally about adaptation. A million years in the future, t...
I've kind of intentionally avoided Vonnegut since disliking the couple of books I read by him back in highschool. But, on the urging of many Vonnegut-fans, I agreed to read this one. Well, it was OK.I might have really liked it if it had been about a fifth of the length it was. It really is a one-jo...
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