ホーカス・ポーカス [Hōkasu pōkasu] - Kurt Vonnegut, カート・ヴォネガット, 浅倉久志 • BookLikes (ISBN:B00C2R9UVE)

ホーカス・ポーカス [Hōkasu pōkasu]

by: カート・ヴォネガット (author) 浅倉久志 (author) Kurt Vonnegut (author)

Format: kindle

ASIN: B00C2R9UVE

Publish date: 2013

Publisher: Hayakawa Shobō

Pages no: 145

Edition language: Japanese

Category:

Classics, Novels, Humor, Science Fiction, Literature, American, Contemporary

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I gave it my best for 40 pages, but finally just saw no reason to continue. This book does have a perverse sort of humor and is funny in places, but it was also off-puttingly angry. The conceit of this book is that it is the disjointed scribblings of a (possibly mad) man who is imprisoned in a libra...

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12 years ago

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I can't say that this is one of Kurt Vonnegut's best works. To be honest, it's rather more depressing than many of his other novels - and they're a rather depressing lot anyway! Unlike his Bluebeard, though, this book lacks a deeply moving and somehow uplifting ending. It lacks a sense of resolution...

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12 years ago

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One of Vonnegut's best. Delightful.

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Book Trauma rated it

13 years ago

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I wasn't quite as enamoured with this Vonnegut tale as I have been with his others. I know he likes to jump back and forth in different time periods of his main character and I usually find it works well. This time there far too many too fast and I found myself quite disoriented. The subject matter ...

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