Welcome to the Monkey House
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative...
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385333504 (0385333501)
ASIN: 385333501
Publish date: October 1998
Publisher: Dial Press Trade
Pages no: 331
Edition language: English
1982 January 62014 October 3Where I Live - Keenly observed. I wonder what an update would be like 50 years on?Harrison Bergeron - This one has aged a bit, but it's still good.Who Am I This Time? - I vividly recall the American Playhouse production with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken. Magic.We...
The Basics A series of short stories (and even a couple of articles) by Kurt Vonnegut. My Thoughts Sad to say, the first thing I want to address is that the title story of this collection (“Welcome to the Monkey House”) is one of the most horrifically unfortunate things I’ve ever read. I want ...
A good collection of stories spanning a wide range of years. As a collection, no broad theme or overarching goal. Some are great, a few are less than great, but the overall quality is very good. A teacher in Alabama was dismissed for assigning this to her students because it "the killing off of elde...
The trouble with stories is that I never know how to rate the book as a whole. The most stupid thing I did was reading a translation and guessing the English expressions behind the translated, unnatural ones. Well, silly me.
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