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Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
3.0
Vonnegut's first novel, and probably his weakest. Some of the ideas are good - in particular, it's his most in-depth exploration of the problem of humans being replaced by machines, leaving them with nothing particularly useful to do. The prose lets it down a little, though - too repetitive, too full of lists.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
4.0
A mid-life crisis in novel form, but it works. A blurring of fiction and reality occurs both at the level of the book itself and within the head of one of the main characters. Vonnegut returned a few times over his career to the absurdity of the idea of free will; in this case he is looking at what happens when it is undermined by malfunctioning brain chemistry.