Welcome to the Monkey House
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
ISBN:
9780224616478 (0224616471)
Publish date: January 1st 1975
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
Pages no: 320
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.