Rate this book

Slaughterhouse Five; The Sirens Of Titan; Player Piano; Cat's Cradle; Breakfast Of Champions; Mother Night (2000)

by Kurt Vonnegut(Favorite Author)

4.43 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0905712471 (ISBN13: 9780905712475)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

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 he's not particularly good either. If you really must read Vonnegut I suggest doing what I did, find some ancient cheap omnibus collection used. Or go to the library.I belive Vonnegut's popularity stems from a phenomenon common enough in the last century where a writer or artist could become a darling of the right socially prominent "in" crowd and by doing so come to be praised and respected far above his/her actually talent level. It's something I like to think of as "The Andy Warhol Effect" fo... morer reasons obvious to anyone with actual (and intellectualy independent) artistic taste. It's a name I came up with in my youth, when I was still relatively unread. Had I been more historically aware at the time I might have called it "The Ayn Rand Effect" for the last century's first notable beneficiary of this effect.
review 2: I think it's funny that vonnegut is considered a science fiction writter. He makes you laugh at everything, until you stop laughing, then you cry. Sometimes I feel like Vonnegut's talking deer who gets caught in the barbed wire, shot by a hunter and poignantly and succinctly sums it up by saying; "What the F&*K was that all about?" also he is from Indianapolis, Vonnegut, not the deer. I didn't actually read this collected version but I would have given all these books five stars anyway so i just did one review for all of them. less

Download links for: Slaughterhouse Five; The Sirens Of Titan; Player Piano; Cat's Cradle; Breakfast Of Champions; Mother Night

Advertising