A review by gossip_gworl
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

sci-fi is unfortunately not my thing and this “technology as a threat” plot has obviously been done better by a lot of other books. still i found this fun to read while also being darkly foreshadowing. parts of this dragged but the ending made it a lot better, loved that it wasn’t an unrealistic “and everything worked out” ending, especially because other parts of it already felt difficult to fully buy into. i understand what he was doing with anita i think but it still felt like she was not the most well written character to me. (also the shah storyline??). anyway excited to read more vonnegut to see how his writing changed since this felt very different than SH5. it seems most people don’t recommend reading this before you’ve read his other works but i’m kinda glad i did anyway so i can appreciate the progression of his writing/ideas.

that’s all except “he fills me full of lie down and die” is my new favorite sentence