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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
She turned out to be clinically bughouse. Face it! Some women are! She hated his kids with a passion. She was jealous of his love for them. She wanted to be the whole show. Some women do!
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Didnt finish :/ love the author and his other books but this one never grabbed me.
Timequake seems to glimpse into the mind of Kurt Vonnegut, it is a book that is all over the place, it became very disjointing. But it's Kurt Vonnegut, everything leads to a story, no matter how nonlinear the story telling goes. It is a mixture of non-fiction about his own life as well as fiction story telling about the recurring Killgore Trout and life going through a "timequake" a decade being relived.
Timequake made me really feel an understanding to how Kurt thinks, it is as well written as anything else he had written and as always is full of humor. It's not his best book, for sure but even Kurt Vonnegut at his worst is still good reading.
Overall its a 3.5/5
Timequake made me really feel an understanding to how Kurt thinks, it is as well written as anything else he had written and as always is full of humor. It's not his best book, for sure but even Kurt Vonnegut at his worst is still good reading.
Overall its a 3.5/5
The meandering thoughts of Vonnegut got the best of me in Timequake - I just couldn't get a grip on this one.
Random but quite entertaining. Vonnegut is someone I'd like to have met, or seen lecture, or something.
dark
funny
medium-paced
Vonnegut speaks in the first person mixing in both fact and fiction, playing alongside Kilgore Trout. This is a "message" book more than a pure entertainment, with Vonnegut laying out his views on nuclear war (and war in general), his continued desire for extended families (karass), and references to earlier works. It is not hard to follow, but nor is it a book for the casual reader. Only those familiar with his past writings should take a look, as references to his life and earlier work are somewhat important to understanding the story.
I recommend this book to those who have read through Vonnegut's earlier work.
I recommend this book to those who have read through Vonnegut's earlier work.
I often find myself wondering WTF I'm reading whenever I read a Vonnegut book, and this one is no exception. I teetered between "is this real?" and "wow I can't believe this really happened" to the point where it was frustrating at times. And like other Vonnegut books, I didn't "get it" until the end. Timequake is a fascinating thought experiment on time (of course), the consequences of our decisions, and the roles various people in our lives play. The twists of the book between 1996, 2001, and everywhere else had me flipping, and on top of that, Kurt mingled fiction alongside of fact, creating a believable historical fiction that had me unclear on which was what.
Highly recommend reading this, and don't give up if you get halfway through it and don't get it. Be sure to read the epilogue too.
Highly recommend reading this, and don't give up if you get halfway through it and don't get it. Be sure to read the epilogue too.