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Mientras Los Mortales Duermen (2011)

by Kurt Vonnegut(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8496867943 (ISBN13: 9788496867949)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Sexto Piso

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 level of bluntness and straight forwardness that is hard to find in other dialogue, while at the same time being buried in the different layers of intrigue and lives of the character. It also maintains a fluid sense of believability so that even while some of these stories take place in impossible situations and places I have no problem falling into the trueness of the story.Not only that, but he was also to pack so much vividness and life into one story, so much to think about and take from in such... more a short amount of pages, and any writer who can be so profound in such a short space and certianly worth readng again. My favorite story, however, was in Hundred Dollar Kisses, because there is nothing better than understanding that there are people out there who see people not as who are they are but the image that they are and people are so much more than that. Not only that, it's so cleverly set up in its retelling that is was surprising how easily I could relate to a Q and A session. I can only say that I am definitely going to be seeking out more from him.
review 2: Stuff I Read - While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut ReviewSo I would consider myself a fan of Vonnegut, due mostly to a busy summer when I read through a number of his books. I have been curious to see how many of those books would hold up now that I'm older (I was in High School at the time). Here, though, is something completely new to me, and short fiction as well, but as I liked Welcome to the Monkey House I figured I would like these as well. And, for the most part, they have a good deal of his charm and craft. It doesn't really surprise me that these went unpublished, though, as many of them are missing just a little something that would make them more complicated, more interesting.That's not to say that the stories aren't good. Many of them are, but there definitely is the feeling that these stories are a bit more dated than a lot of his other stuff. They read as very much products of the time they were written in, and while they aren't bad, they do have some issues because of the casual misogyny at work in America around the time of the Second World War. There is definitely the feeling that Vonnegut is not being against women, but that his values were such that he did believe that the roles of men and women were rather set. At least, that's how many of these stories read.Which made them just a bit harder to like. For their time they are progressive, and many of them have messages that are still applicable today, but for some of them the art gets a little warped because of the times. Like watching old television shows, you just see how things were at the time and how things that even were progressive weren't doing that great of a job with some things. So while I would probably say that these stories are, on average, better than much of what was coming out back then, they fall short of the standards of today, and I'm rather in the camp that things even produced in the past have to do better than crap.All that said, the stories are pretty cute, and the characters are interesting and in true Vonnegut fashion. There's a lot going on in some of the stories, but the foreword wasn't lying when it called many of these stories more moral in nature. And that makes them a bit more brittle, a bit thinner. I enjoyed reading many of them, but overall I didn't feel that I would really go out of my way to recommend them. Which, to me, is about a 6/10. less

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mamatimi

I first took up this book in a bookstore a couple of years ago - it might have been newly out - read a story or two and sort-of became my bookstore-reading book, the one I looked at when I went to the store to pass some time and didn't have any other interests. Now I finally read it (I can scratch it out of my to-read list after all that time!)and I wasn't disappointed.When I looked briefly into the comments section, most people seemed to compare "While mortals sleep" with Kurt Vonnegut's other books - I did not do it. I have read some of Vonnegut's novels ("Galápagos", "Armageddon in retrospect", "Breakfast of Champions") and really enjoyed them, but somehow this book didn't connect in my mind with them at all. Maybe I read them too long ago or the style is different, but I think it may be a good thing too. Three years ago I read almost all short story collections I found in my home - about ten, I think - for a school assignment. Many of them I liked well enough but they left no lasting impression. This one I would have loved. No matter what it's like compared with Vonnegut's masterpieces, the stories were funny and witty and had unexpected endings and very much humanity and life in them. I found something delightful in every one of them. That's what matters in the end, I believe.

Rith

If this doesn't give hope to struggling writers, I don't know what would. Sure these seem like simple, maybe boring, stories, but they show KV in his creative development! It is the beginning of an autobiography of sorts of KV as a writer. This isn't Welcome to the Monkey House, nor were these stories intended to be. These are the stories of a man publishing to get published, all the while practicing and perfecting his incredible gifts of wit, insight, and storytelling. A must-read for all KV fans.

Micheal

It was a'ight. Lots of women named Nancy and fairly simple parables. An airplane read.

zanza

Ehhhhhhh. I don't think short stories, in general, do it for me.

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