A review by koreilly
Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace by Kurt Vonnegut

3.0

Posthumously published work is always a little bit icky, reaking somewhat of cashing in on an author's celbrity by publishing things they chose not to in their time here. This book ebbs and flows between the two. Some of the writing is illuminating on the character of Kurt Vonnegut and his own war-time experience. Anyone who has read his most famous novel knows a high level overview of it but it is still interesting to read a non-fiction view of his experience in Dresden during the war.

Some of the content though is fiction or what have you that Kurt obviously didn't want published due to a low-quality or amateurish nature. None of it is really terrible but a collection of stories about POWs during the war seem more like generic mid century dime fiction then the quirky heart-filled stuff you expect from Vonnegut.

So overall I would really only recommend this to Vonnegut completionists.