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A review by muffmacguff
And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
4.0
This book really bummed me out! It's exhaustively researched and well-paced.
I'm a pretty huge fan of Vonnegut's writing since I first read Cat's Cradle in middle school. I think a lot of the empathy I found in his books is responsible for my worldview today, and I'm really grateful for that.
However, the man was basically an asshole and a chauvinist (the latter being unsurprising to close readers of a lot of his work), and was not in many ways exceptional outside of his writing. I'm still not sure I wanted to know that, but maybe it's better that I do. Hi ho.
I'm a pretty huge fan of Vonnegut's writing since I first read Cat's Cradle in middle school. I think a lot of the empathy I found in his books is responsible for my worldview today, and I'm really grateful for that.
However, the man was basically an asshole and a chauvinist (the latter being unsurprising to close readers of a lot of his work), and was not in many ways exceptional outside of his writing. I'm still not sure I wanted to know that, but maybe it's better that I do. Hi ho.