by Kurt Vonnegut
There are a number of Vonnegut books that I wish to read again, but this is not one of them. It is not because it is a bad book, or badly written, but that it is somewhat to what I expect from him. I somehow enjoy the irony of how a science-fiction writer casts his main characters as failed science-...
Wonderful, concise fable about the separation of the classes, and the differences and similarities between kindness and madness.
Mixed feelings about this one; Rosewater has some great moments, but out of his early novels this is Vonnegut at his most pessimistic about humanity, and that is saying a lot.
Not my favorite, although "merely adequate" by Vonnegut is still greater than most books can aspire. I probably wouldn't remember it at all if there hadn't been a beloved bar by the name.
My favorite bits are the two pornographic novels-within-the-novel, Garvey Ulm's Get With Child a Mandrake Root and Kilgore Trout's Venus on the Half-Shell, both marvelously suggested by illustrative paragraphs. Philip José Farmer was tasteless enough actually to write the second book. I suppose we c...
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