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ruchi99gupta's review against another edition
3.0
This book is what I imagine Creed's word document would look like from the scene about his "blog" on The Office. The inside of the book jacket literally describes this as an "intimate and tender communication." No idea what he was talking about for at least 50% of it, but it was somehow still sweet anyways.
alittlebird's review against another edition
5.0
A true humanitarian and someone I continue to resonate more with every item I read and reread of his oeuvre. The anger he expressed here has only gotten more relevant with the passing of the last 15ish years.
I, too, am a person without a country. But I am not without people and for them I have nothing but kindness.
I, too, am a person without a country. But I am not without people and for them I have nothing but kindness.
banrions's review against another edition
5.0
I'm pretty sure that Vonnegut is the smartest man in the world.
pfaze's review against another edition
3.0
This book has some very interesting, funny, and poignant phrases, but most of it is just word vomit.
sanieczka's review against another edition
5.0
Sve što je napisao 2005. za Buša i Irak važi i sada, samo sa nešto drugačijim imenima.
Ponešto o pacifizmu i ludistima.
Daje grafičke prikaze storytelling-a kod Šekspira, Kafke i Pepeljuge.
Kratko, jasno i urnebesno. Nešto najbliže memoarima a što ja mogu da svarim.
Preporuka!
Ponešto o pacifizmu i ludistima.
Daje grafičke prikaze storytelling-a kod Šekspira, Kafke i Pepeljuge.
Kratko, jasno i urnebesno. Nešto najbliže memoarima a što ja mogu da svarim.
Preporuka!
thatmattcrowe's review against another edition
4.0
A Vonnegut biography without the Timequake sheen, a greatest hits compilation of his most astute passages (and drawings), assessments of his own works and an aggressive screed against the then Bush government. The latter sections are definitely the most striking: like George Carlin he appeared to grown a lot angrier at the end of his life, but Kurt is too much of a humanist to completely give up on the human species.
To read this in the current climate, though, is both cathartic and saddening. Sorry Kurt; it didn't get better. In fact, we could have used you right now.
To read this in the current climate, though, is both cathartic and saddening. Sorry Kurt; it didn't get better. In fact, we could have used you right now.
amberhayward's review against another edition
5.0
Welcome to Timequake with out all the Timequake parts!
This is, as far as I'm concerned, I distilled version of all of the non-fiction and KV thoughts and ideas and opinions that are in Timequake with a little bit more thrown in because there were a few years that happened in between. I read Timequake right after this which I think made me a little bored with Timequake. I recommend reading them far apart from each other.
This is, as far as I'm concerned, I distilled version of all of the non-fiction and KV thoughts and ideas and opinions that are in Timequake with a little bit more thrown in because there were a few years that happened in between. I read Timequake right after this which I think made me a little bored with Timequake. I recommend reading them far apart from each other.
cophoff's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoy reading Kurt Vonnegut, and if I had it to do over I would read this, his final book, only after I had read all the rest (which I have yet to do). The man has a talent for inserting humor into the most horrific of things, a talent he accounts for early on in this memoir of sorts, but this book ultimately reads like the final disgruntled rant of a disillusioned old man. Which, incidentally, it is, and he openly acknowledges it as such. It is Kurt Vonnegut, and that was the point of most of his work, but the difference here is the saturation of bitterness because it isn't embedded in a well written story.
Reading this there were many moments when I found myself laughing outright, others when I was nodding my head vigorously in agreement, and still others when I succumbed to frustration with the constant negativity. He repeats ideas, even phrases, throughout the book and there were times when I wanted to say enough already. It comes across as just bitterness, and that's a wasted emotion in my book. But every time I was about to set the book aside intending to never pick it up again, he would renew my interest with another fabulous observation or statement that got me hooked back in.
For many, especially the true fans, the people who grew up on Vonnegut's acerbic wit, this will be an enjoyable must read. And people who are one-hundred percent in line with his political views will enjoy it even more. I fall into neither of those categories, but I would still give it a three out of five.
Reading this there were many moments when I found myself laughing outright, others when I was nodding my head vigorously in agreement, and still others when I succumbed to frustration with the constant negativity. He repeats ideas, even phrases, throughout the book and there were times when I wanted to say enough already. It comes across as just bitterness, and that's a wasted emotion in my book. But every time I was about to set the book aside intending to never pick it up again, he would renew my interest with another fabulous observation or statement that got me hooked back in.
For many, especially the true fans, the people who grew up on Vonnegut's acerbic wit, this will be an enjoyable must read. And people who are one-hundred percent in line with his political views will enjoy it even more. I fall into neither of those categories, but I would still give it a three out of five.