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Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut

4.23 AVERAGE


“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”

zany, smart, funny prose! the only vonnegut i’ve read since slaughterhouse five at sixteen and i forgot how great he was
dark funny reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark funny reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark funny fast-paced
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

girlypop what?
first and foremost, Resi, ‘what the fuck?’ and somewhere also slay, like what else can one expect from a 10 year old nihilist, coming of age in post wwii germany?!…
also, Howard W. Campbell (Jr. -lol, Americans), what a fucking fuck?, this man cannot decide for the life of him, what kind of person he wants to be. either have morals or don’t. nobody needs to hear you go on and on about whether you’re a bad person for doing the things you did or not.. -but i guess kind of the point of the book (: (beautifully written with the ideal amount of dark humor)

Not as sharp as other Vonnegut books, but the theme of absurdism is still there.
"The stars don't care" indeed.
dark funny reflective
challenging dark funny reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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