by Kurt Vonnegut
Well, this was disappointing. Player Piano was not a good book, although everything about it seemed so promising at first – I hate it, when that happens! I really adore Vonnegut, therefore it is hard for me to admit, that he really did come a long way since his first novel and that he was not born...
Yup. You read that correctly. This is Vonnegut's first novel.I read this book for book club. The theme was "P", so the book had to start with a letter "P". I was thrilled this book was chosen because Vonnegut makes me all kinds of happy. I love then society is looked at in such a satirical way that ...
Let's not beat around the bush.'Player Piano' is far below the very high standards Vonnegut set up later in his career as a novelist.Most surprisingly - given what Kurt V. would have written in the following years - this novel casts plenty of dull dialogues and many an uninspired wordy description. ...
I read a bunch of Vonnegut's stuff in late high school and college (15-20 years ago) and remember really enjoying him. I didn't recall if I had read this one or not (and now after reading it am sure I did not) before and figured either way he is probably worth a re-visiting in an effort to update t...
Aside from an interesting vision of the future of technology from a 1952 perspective, there is not too much to recommend here. The idea of advanced computers that made all decisions by the use of enormous card stacks made me chuckle.The story is of the dehumanization of the United States population ...
This was one of the first Vonnegut novels I read. It got me interested in his writing in a way that Slaughterhouse Five never could.
Most of the themes of Vonnegut's great novels are present in his first novel, but not as fully developed or as skillfully presented. If you are a Vonnegut fan you will enjoy this one too, but if you are trying Vonnegut for the first time read Slaughterhouse Five, Mother Night, or Cat's Cradle.
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