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mveldeivendran's review
5.0
When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience
Well, I'd like the guy or girl, of course- to put the book down and think, "This is the greatest man who ever lived." (laughs)
Everything in the book is beautiful and nothing really hurt. Definitely a feast for the Vonnegut followers. Lot of insights from his family background, his experiences with wars, advertising works. The Conversation of his with Joseph Heller was pure gold which I didn't see it coming. This crazy old man never disappoints to amaze me with his crazy way of seeing things and persuade me that's the highest form of wisdom.
Well, I'd like the guy or girl, of course- to put the book down and think, "This is the greatest man who ever lived." (laughs)
Everything in the book is beautiful and nothing really hurt. Definitely a feast for the Vonnegut followers. Lot of insights from his family background, his experiences with wars, advertising works. The Conversation of his with Joseph Heller was pure gold which I didn't see it coming. This crazy old man never disappoints to amaze me with his crazy way of seeing things and persuade me that's the highest form of wisdom.
vurtkonnegut's review
3.0
Worth it just for the interview involving Vonnegut and Heller. I would have given this 4 stars were it not for the same questions and answers constantly being repeated, but I guess they got the message through easier that way. Well worth the $1 I paid for it.
cwilbur24's review
5.0
Kurt Vonnegut is the type of human we could use more of. It is truly tragic that we have to live without him day to day. His humor is one I wish I could have experienced in person, but I enjoyed just the same on the page. RIP Mr. Vonnegut. You were an extraordinary writer and example to the human spirit.
melsuds's review
3.0
I want to give this a better rating, and i mean that but man. Whoever edits these couldn’t just be like ‘yo he answers this, or a very similar question, three other times over the course of the book, we’re just gonna crop it down to one’ for the sake of the reader having a deja vu every other page. I’ve only read slaughterhouse-five, i felt like i knew kurt fairly well already, and this short collection of interviews solidified and inclinations i had, but didn’t really offer me anything overly interesting. Vonnegut and Joseph Heller’s interview was fun though, despite me cringing a bit for the interviewer being a major third wheel and missing half the jokes (or being the punchline).
viljesvag's review
2.0
It's a bunch of interview's with Kurt Vonnegut, I really don't have that much more to say?
My first and only previous interaction with the Last Interview series was the one with the excellent Ursula K. Le Guin, but that one actually provided me with some insight and wisdom. All of the interviews in this book touch on some different aspects of life, but also very much on a lot of similar topics (Dresden, war in general), with Vonnegut giving almost the exact same answer every time, and it's just like... eh, what's the point?
I do have to say that it was quite interesting to see a male author just straight up confessing (in 1977) to intentionally not having any women in his works, but other than that I didn't really gain much from this. Pretty good insights on war and politics, the one where Joseph Heller joined in was pretty amusing, but almost every time the topic of women came up was absolute clown shoes.
My first and only previous interaction with the Last Interview series was the one with the excellent Ursula K. Le Guin, but that one actually provided me with some insight and wisdom. All of the interviews in this book touch on some different aspects of life, but also very much on a lot of similar topics (Dresden, war in general), with Vonnegut giving almost the exact same answer every time, and it's just like... eh, what's the point?
I do have to say that it was quite interesting to see a male author just straight up confessing (in 1977) to intentionally not having any women in his works, but other than that I didn't really gain much from this. Pretty good insights on war and politics, the one where Joseph Heller joined in was pretty amusing, but almost every time the topic of women came up was absolute clown shoes.
mayasophia's review
4.0
The best quote of this, though it can be said that there are many, is rightly printed on the back: "I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
And I think that best describes why I'd read anything and everything Vonnegut had to say about any and every subject.
I've no idea why you'd read this if you didn't already adore Kurt Vonnegut, but if you do, it is well worth picking up this little book. I'm not sure that he'd approve, but if I can be said to have a religion, is it that of worshipping Vonnegut.
And I think that best describes why I'd read anything and everything Vonnegut had to say about any and every subject.
I've no idea why you'd read this if you didn't already adore Kurt Vonnegut, but if you do, it is well worth picking up this little book. I'm not sure that he'd approve, but if I can be said to have a religion, is it that of worshipping Vonnegut.
evergleaming's review
3.0
A lot of repetitive material, but what struck me most about gathering all these interviews together was witnessing the harsh and relentless passage of time unfold before my eyes. Joseph Heller is alive and well and joking with his friend on one page, and being discussed bluntly in the past tense on the next. Vonnegut, as he says, never expected to live so long.
"When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?
Well, I'd like the guy--or the girl, of course--to put the book down and think, 'This is the greatest man who ever lived.'"
"When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?
Well, I'd like the guy--or the girl, of course--to put the book down and think, 'This is the greatest man who ever lived.'"
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