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Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut
What to say about this book? One part autobiography/memoir. One part sci-fi story. One part satire on society. Mashed together with "timequakes" interspersed through out. Timequakes could have various effects:
Throw random people into the past.
Cause random people to return to a point in their lives and have to relive it without change.
In one case, extend a life 10 years past the point when they were scheduled to die.
Sometimes they had free will. Other times they did not (they were stuck in the programming instilled in them by society and the people around them.)
The first half of this story was rollicking and fun. Robin Williams improve meets Monte Python.
The second half kind of deteriorated into your grandpa telling you stories of the olden days in a context that you couldn't understand with a little repetition in places.
I'm still glad I read it but it is not among his best works.
Throw random people into the past.
Cause random people to return to a point in their lives and have to relive it without change.
In one case, extend a life 10 years past the point when they were scheduled to die.
Sometimes they had free will. Other times they did not (they were stuck in the programming instilled in them by society and the people around them.)
The first half of this story was rollicking and fun. Robin Williams improve meets Monte Python.
The second half kind of deteriorated into your grandpa telling you stories of the olden days in a context that you couldn't understand with a little repetition in places.
I'm still glad I read it but it is not among his best works.