I've enjoyed each Vonnegut book I've read. This is one of my favorites.The central concept is that he was not really a Nazi (he was an American spy), but that, to some degree, it doesn't matter. It seems to ask if it matters what we really are if we are seen as something else with near universal a...
I remember why I love KV. Such deep compassion for flawed characters, without sacrificing moral integrity but rather, bringing it into even sharper relief. ETA: I'm not intending to do any kind of review here, but another thing about this book -- and about much of Vonnegut -- is his poignant under...
Howard W. Campbell, Jr. is "an American by birth, a Nazi by reputation, and a nationless person by inclination". His memoirs are haunting, bitter-sweet and sometimes filled with irony and dark humour. Serving as an American spy by being a Nazi propagandist and German language playwright in the WWII,...
Vonnegut's strongest novel is also his darkest. A man who posed as a Nazi radio propagandist in order to broadcast coded messages to the Allies finds himself unable to escape that identity after returning to America after the war.
I adore Kurt Vonnegut. I went through a period in late high school, when I first found how brilliant a writer he was, where I read a ton of his works. Every time I go to a used book store, I check the Vs to see if there are any Vonnegut books I might not have or have read. This was one of those find...
I'm going to make an unpopular statement right now: This is the best of Kurt Vonnegut's novels. Okay Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five fans, fling your dung at me, I understand. The characters, setting, plot, all of it comes together in a well-wrapped tale in which a man fights the truth of his o...
A novel about how ambiguous a human's identity really is. Like so many of Vonnegut's works, this is also a novel about loneliness. Spy or Nazi war criminal? Who can say?
Vastly underrated piece of black comedy, about a World War 2 double agent whose cover is a Nazi propagandist in the style of Lord Haw-Haw. Vonnegut says in the preface that this is the only one of his books where he knows what the moral is. You are what you pretend to be, so be careful about who you...
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