by Kurt Vonnegut
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...
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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.
An excellent collection of short stories. Among my favorites were "Harrison Bergeron" and "Who Am I This Time?" In the latter story, Kurt Vonnegut presents the character of Harry Nash, a reticent hardware store owner who comes out of his shell only when he is acting a part on stage. The problem is, ...
The world is overpopulated, and they have Ethical Suicide Parlors, where public minded citizens are encouraged to go in and get a lethal injection from the attractive hostesses. There's a big thermometer outside, showing how many people there currently are in the world.So the guy comes in, and he's ...
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