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Arthur Bishop
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Kurt Vonnegut
According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade - for good or ill - a second time.
As a character in and a brilliant chronicler of this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he's lived it and observed it for more than 70 years.
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Not his best
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Typical wry and dark Vonnegut humor...
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More of a series is essays than a novel
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I love this man!
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Vonnegut in fine form dazzling us while we contemplate deep questions and laugh at crude jokes. Brilliant.
Ting-a-ling!
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Not Vonnegut’s best
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What a wonderful treat. Four Stars ****
A fun chance to meet Vonnegut again
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Anyway, I think all three of us were right. My wife was beautifully right in buying me Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut was right in writing it. I was right in waiting. I wasn't ready for this book. I'm now 20 years closer to death. I am now a father to two pimply teenagers who are sleeping tonight waiting for their parents to pretend still they are Santa and bring them goodies on Christmas morning. We are all pretending the best we can. We are all making the best of this short spin on Earth. I am now in a place where I can functionally GET the older Vonnegut better. I can get better his take on free will, money, morality, and art.
Timequake isn't a great novel, but it has absolutely brilliant parts. I love its lines and sentences better than I liked the book. It has a fantastic message about extended family and friends and community that I absolutely adored. It has so many good lines (yes, I said that before, but now I'm going to pull back the curtain):
"Only when free will kicked in again could they stop running obstacle courses of their own construction."
"Let us be perfectly frank for a change. For practically everybody, the end of the world can’t come soon enough."
"I define a saint as a person who behaves decently in an indecent society."
"...when things were really going well we should be sure to notice it."
"Pictures are famous for their humanness, and not for their pictureness."
Arias only make hopeless situations worse
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Huh...
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Arthur Bishop does a fine job of narrating.
Wild. Wacky. Vonnegut!
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