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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
Favourites:
* Confido
* Hall of Mirrors
* Look at the Birdie
* Confido
* Hall of Mirrors
* Look at the Birdie
Classic Vonnegut: absurd humor masks social commentary and moral depth. A fun read that will keep you thinking long after you're done, if you're really paying attention.
dark
medium-paced
Some uplifting and interesting stories in here
As always with Kurt Vonnegut, I enjoyed this one. Not my absolute favorite (I think I'll always reserve that for Breakfast of Champions), but definitely a worthwhile collection of his short stories.
Vonnegut at his inimitable and irascible best! Candour, Caustic wit and clear thinking all building a stirring momentum.
Some really good stories, but these were all unpublished and in many cases that was probably a good choice by their author; they just weren't that good. The title story is creepy as hell and somewhat prescient of our 'cameras everywhere' culture now. Most of the stories were dated in gender roles and language. The narrators were generally outstanding though.
Two or three brilliant stories, a few sharp one-liners, and the rest is quite mediocre, not up to Vonnegut's usual standards. I can see why this stuff hasn't been published before.
Most of these were not my cup of tea but The Good Explainer is a very powerful short story, and Ed Luby’s Key Club was great as well.
I was a little disappointed with this book as it lacks all the characteristics that readers come to expect of a Vonnegut work. Furthermore, the foreword of any work by Vonnegut was just as entertaining as the stories themselves, but this one came up short. The forewords made sense of the whole thing. I remember reading the foreword of Breakfast of Champions and reading about how soldiers fighting during World War I head the silence on the 11 day of the 11 month with the truce and swore that it was the voice of God. This is just a collection of short stories from a novice writer trying to find his voice.
Armageddon in Retrospect was the last book Vonnegut was working on before his death. In that book, I could tell that he wanted to rework certain stories within it. There are in fact two stories in that work that are identical with exception to the ending. It was a magnificent final work, Birdie is probably the worst. It probably shouldn't have been put out at all with the exception pleasing hard core Vonnegut fans. With the exception of Candido, all of the stories are very bland and predictable. They lack the characteristics of the Vonnegut everyone knows.
Armageddon in Retrospect was the last book Vonnegut was working on before his death. In that book, I could tell that he wanted to rework certain stories within it. There are in fact two stories in that work that are identical with exception to the ending. It was a magnificent final work, Birdie is probably the worst. It probably shouldn't have been put out at all with the exception pleasing hard core Vonnegut fans. With the exception of Candido, all of the stories are very bland and predictable. They lack the characteristics of the Vonnegut everyone knows.