Books by Kurt Vonnegut
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review 1: I had to read this story for school and it was terrible. I felt like the characters were just a normal family and there was nothing special about them. This story seemed like it was written in 15 minutes and the author didn't care enough to finish the story so he just shot Harris...
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review 1: Cuentos en los que Kurt Vonnegut da pequeñas pinceladas de una humanidad superficial, ignorante, con bondad mal correspondida, etc. Un Vonnegut por partes pero aún así disfrutable. Pese a que los cuentos están en función de la crítica social-reflexión que deben provocar -pues ese...
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review 1: Read this due to some hangover B2RO2B caused, although I'll have to remark that this story is lighter in comparison to the other mentioned. This story tells of again, a society wherein everybody lives well past 100 but somehow makes fun of it as Gramps's and his heirs' story of h...
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review 1: Los dos últimos episodios sobran (un ensayo y un relato sin finalizar). Las otras historias son maravillosas -nunca fueron publicadas antes y una no deja de preguntarse por los kilos de historias sin asunto que se publican y que no llegan ni a los pies de estos relatos que, supon...
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review 1: Поредният сборник с неиздавани (или излизали по разни списания и вестници) разкази на Вонегът. Може би най-слабият от четирите излезли до сега. Все пак сред страниците му се крият няколко нешлифовани диаманта и едно есе, осмиващо обществените порядки в типичния Вонегътски стил (в...
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review 1: I wish that the book were a little longer. The plot developed and occurred all within three pages. I do understand the purpose of the short story is not the story at all and that futuristic stories are generally criticisms of a contemporary culture, yet still, I would like liked ...
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review 1: "Keep your hat on. We might end up miles from here."Vonnegut offers his wildly unvarnished opinion on a variety of topics here in advice directed toward graduates, but relevant to anyone who is alive today (or perhaps at any time). As Vonnegut says, 'I just got here myself'.The...
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review 1: I read the Big Trip Up Yonder because I had enjoyed the concept of 2BR02B (which I had read first, although it takes place later) so much and I had heard that this particular short story also focused on the concept of the cure to aging leading to severe population control problem...
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review 1: I will commit literary heresy by stating outright that Kurt Vonnegut badly overrated. While it is tempting to go to an extreme whenever I see somebody or some thing being over-praised and declare it dreadful (as so many people do), I'll grant that Vonnegut is not dreadful. But ...
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review 1: This is a collection of 4 or 5 interviews with Kurt, including the last one with him on the phone in 2007. I love every word he has every spoken or written and must be getting close to the point where I have read all of them. This book is too short. Vonnegut is hilarious, but nev...
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review 1: Reading this made me come to certain political understandings. I know the author was coming from another point of view when he wrote it...much different times. But the realities of today's health care issues...this just reminded me of how so many veterans have recently died at th...
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review 1: These previously unpublished short stories by the late Kurt Vonnegut are little gems to any Vonnegut fan. Written early in his career they include his little plot twists, social commentary and criticism and interesting characters. He clearly does not embrace the post war euphor...
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review 1: From fantastically whimsical to witty and political, this collection of short stories introduced me to the writing of Kurt Vonnegut in such a spectacular way. Certainly the most brilliant aspect of all the stories contained in this collection is the dialogue. In it is a certian l...
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review 1: I picked up Vonnegut - Novels and Stories 1963-1973. I began with Cat's Cradle and didn't finish it. I began Breakfast of Champions and didn't finish it. I read all of Welcome to the Monkey House. I am returning the book to the library without reading any further. I found his wor...