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Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut's black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and according to Harper's Magazine, established him as 'a true artist' with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, 'one of the best living American writers'. Vonnegut died in April 2007.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is Vonnegut's best book. (Ignore all the hype surrounding "Slaughterhouse Five", and you won't be disappointed.) There are more quotable lines here than in anything except Hamlet. It will make you laugh a lot - and cry too, very possibly. More than thirty years after I first read it, I still keep coming back. And I know parts of it by heart (without necessarily being word perfect!) It begins "A sum of money is a leading character in this story about human beings, just as a sum of honey might be a leading character in a story about bees..."
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Vonnegut is less appreciated than he should be, that goes without saying. This is not one of his most famous books, but in its quiet modest way is nevertheless a masterpiece. Terrifying in its depiction of an America at odds with itself, desperately trying to (re)discover the true values of love, family and caring for one another... Read it! Then join the Volunteer Fire Department.... :)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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After reading Slaughterhouse 5 I became interested in other books by the same author and was lucky to stumble onto this book. It has a lot of the same elements from the previously mentioned book, but is also quite different, and I can say that it was an enjoyable read. Apart from a lot of joking and ridiculous humor there is also a good amount of insight into certain types of people and ongoing problems in society today. It reminded me a bit of Joseph Heller, but it wasn't as funny as Catch-22, for example. I thought the ending left a bit to be desired, and I wish he would have elaborated more on certain storylines, but I would say that this is definitely worth reading if you like the style.
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a eccentric but highly persuasive attack on unearned wealth
This is not so much a novel as such, as a satire or a fable. That is to say: it's not a book concerned with coherent plotting, character development, or with bringing to life a... Read more
Published 9 months ago by William Jordan
eccentric, naive, and often rather dull
After greatly enjoying some Vonnegut sci-fi, I was perhaps looking for the wrong thing with this book. Read more
Published 12 months ago by rob crawford
whats up with eliot
eliot, the millionaire protagonist of Vonegut's fifth satire, is forever striving to clense, or redeem himself of accidentaly killing three innocent firemen in battle.
Published on 15 Oct 2001
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