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A review by kamrynkoble
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
5.0
Selections from Welcome to the Monkey House English academic team and I can't remember a time I've read more thought-provoking literature. Vonnegut has this odd, timeless writing style that makes you believe it could have been written yesterday or fifty years from now, instead of in the mid-20th century.
I had thought it would be a chore to get through what I was required, so I clearly remember forcing myself to sit down with the PDF and just get the short stories over with. But I slammed through them in one sitting. I love fiction; however, I have never loved short stories. I believe it's because I value character development and an intricately woven plot, both which are hard to convey in writing of that length. Along with that, I've thought that a lot of previous ones I've read/studied are anticlimactic or too long-winded, an awkward not-novel, not-short-story.
And man, did Vonnegut just became the author of short stories I have been missing all of my life.
I can't remember the last time I whispered an audible wow, after I finished reading something, or could grow attached to a machine in a handful of pages. What a master Kurt Vonnegut is. This has made me crave more good literature, and I can't stop thinking of the masterfully-done satire that is Harrison Bergeron. I wish I could convey such powerful messages in as few pages as he does. Truly, Kurt Vonnegut is one of those authors that writers need to read in order to better their craft.
I had thought it would be a chore to get through what I was required, so I clearly remember forcing myself to sit down with the PDF and just get the short stories over with. But I slammed through them in one sitting. I love fiction; however, I have never loved short stories. I believe it's because I value character development and an intricately woven plot, both which are hard to convey in writing of that length. Along with that, I've thought that a lot of previous ones I've read/studied are anticlimactic or too long-winded, an awkward not-novel, not-short-story.
And man, did Vonnegut just became the author of short stories I have been missing all of my life.
I can't remember the last time I whispered an audible wow, after I finished reading something, or could grow attached to a machine in a handful of pages. What a master Kurt Vonnegut is. This has made me crave more good literature, and I can't stop thinking of the masterfully-done satire that is Harrison Bergeron. I wish I could convey such powerful messages in as few pages as he does. Truly, Kurt Vonnegut is one of those authors that writers need to read in order to better their craft.