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'After you have read one of Kurt Vonnegut's gleefully pessimistic novels, his words go on colouring your world for a long time afterwards... not to read him would be to miss out on lessons that need to be learned about the age we live in' Sunday Times
'It is all done with voice. Vonnegut is a master of the first-person, manic-depressive stand-up' Observer
'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' New York Times Book Review
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007), was a writer, lecturer and painter. First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of fiction and nonfiction.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I had never even heard of Kurt Vonnegut until being stuck in a car during a road-trip across California with only an LA Times to read - which happened to have a 2-page feature on the author just after he died. A few weeks later I ordered one of his books on the off-chance it might be good, and in the months following then I have been devouring his body of work, and recommending his books to anyone with an interest in reading.
Hocus Pocus is possibly my favourite so far, although in saying that I have not read a bad one yet. As with all Vonnegut's books, this is filled with cynicism, pessimism, tragedy, distrust of authority, brutal honesty and cutting character assinations (of character types if not of real people). Yet for all that, the humour, invention and underlying humanity of the man means this is never a depressing read.
Hocus Pocus is possibly my favourite so far, although in saying that I have not read a bad one yet. As with all Vonnegut's books, this is filled with cynicism, pessimism, tragedy, distrust of authority, brutal honesty and cutting character assinations (of character types if not of real people). Yet for all that, the humour, invention and underlying humanity of the man means this is never a depressing read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of Vonnegut's best - up there with Mother Night and (almost) Cat's Cradle. With a wry eye for comedy and an unimpeachable feel for pacing, our hero somehow manages to convey what is both farcical and revolting in the normal state of human affairs. Funny and true.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Vonnegut's incisive writing never ceases to amaze and entertain me.
Here he is as cynical, bitter and critical as always but one can't help enjoying his funny divergent perspective of reality.
Read this one and you will find yourself questioning a lot of what is happening in the society around you as you follow the life and worries of a Vietnam veteran. Excellent book.
Here he is as cynical, bitter and critical as always but one can't help enjoying his funny divergent perspective of reality.
Read this one and you will find yourself questioning a lot of what is happening in the society around you as you follow the life and worries of a Vietnam veteran. Excellent book.
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Vonnegut at his best.
This Vonnegut book I had somehow missed when it was published in 2003.
It is vintage Vonnegut and it makes one feel the loss caused by his death last year. Read more
It is vintage Vonnegut and it makes one feel the loss caused by his death last year. Read more
Published 19 months ago by T. P. Van Meij
Mr. Vonnegut
I discovered Kurt Vonnegut the same year he died. It wasn't through the news of his death but a quote I saw on a website, of all places, that intrigued me. Read more
Published 23 months ago by electro_cute
A League of its own
This is my 3rd novel from this writer and I have come to the conclusion that Vonnegut's novels are a form onto themselves. Adjectives like good or bad don't apply. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2007 by F. X. Dessioux
Vonnegut writing about his favourite: warfare!
Hocus Pocus is a story told by Proffessor Hartke of Tarkington College Scipio. A colledge for affluent but stupid people. Across the river is a prison run by japanese. Read more
Published on 14 April 2003
A Non-Magical Trip to Prison?
Vonnegut has written many works that are justifiably praised, often laced with biting satire and normally an excellent insight into people and their surrounding society. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2002 by Patrick Shepherd
very vonnegutian (vonnaygooshien?)
Hocus Pocus mines a familiar theme for a Vonnegut novel, the absurdity of war, Vietnam in this case, throwing in other prosaic tools of his, such as repetition, a first person... Read more
Published on 1 May 2002
Kurt Vonnegut rocks.
This book rocks.
Published on 6 Feb 1999
Not that faboulous
I read Hocus Pocus because of the "People who read this aurthor" thing at the bottom of a book by T. Robbins. I picked it up and the intro was enthralling. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 1999
Everyone misses it.
The reviewers of ALL modern satire on these Amazon pages (Pynchon, Vonnegut, Robbins, etc.) just aren't able to "put it together. Read more
Published on 18 July 1998
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