Looking through posts tagged ‘Kurt Vonnegut’

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Breakfast of Champions | 30th Jan 2010

Breakfast of Champions is the story of Dwayne Hoover, a car dealer obsessed with the writings of a science fiction author named Kilgore Trout. Hoover has requested that Trout be invited to speak at his town’s art festival. As Trout travels to the city, Hoover undergoes some sort of mental breakdown. The story is definitely [...]

A Man Without A Country Review | 31st Mar 2009

A Man Without A Country is something of a memoir by Kurt Vonnegut. It contains a number of passages he has written in recent years. Some of them are excerpts of articles he wrote as Senior Editor for In These Times, a political magazine out of Chicago. The passages are often short, containing little pearls [...]

Slaughterhouse-Five Review | 28th Mar 2009

I love Kurt Vonnegut. I don’t know how it could have taken me this long to realize it. If you’ve never read any of his books, you should take the time to make your next book one of his. I finished this one quite some time ago, but I realized I never wrote a review. [...]

Harrison Bergeron Review | 1st Jan 2009

The dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut is an interesting tale of life in the year 2081, when all humans have been made “equal.” They’re equal because anyone who is exceptional is given government-issued handicap devices: masks for the beautiful, constant weight for the strong, and mind-numbing noise for the intelligent. The premise [...]

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