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I want to love Vonnegut but its just not hitting for me

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

December 5, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I never took an American lit class in college, so I am still attempting to fill the holes with some of the seminal authors that I missed, Kurt Vonnegut being one. I read Slaughterhouse Five years ago and mostly what I remember is it being weird- which prepared me for Breakfast of Champions. The novel follows two main characters, Dwayne Hoover, a successful car salesman in Midland City, Ohio, and Kilgore Trout, a fictional author that shows up in several Vonnegut novels. Hoover is inching […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Breakfast of Champions, kurt vonnegut

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Breakfast of Champions, kurt vonnegut ·
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Timequake

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

September 7, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

We’ve had a bunch of timeloop movies and stories by this time, but they always end up more or less doing the same thing. Working toward fixing the problem of the timeloop, which is almost always one single day. Even the game Deathloop, which I loved, did more or less the same thing. In this novel though the timeloop is a solid ten years, and more so, no one is allowed to do anything different, and the only thing that changes is what people are […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: kurt vonnegut

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:514 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: kurt vonnegut ·
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Hell and Gone

Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

July 22, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Had mixed feelings on this one, though I ultimately liked it and found it compelling and readable. And I say that as someone who doesn’t care for serial killer stories, fiction or not. The good: Sherman knows how to weave a yarn. He keeps this smooth, while integrating the many historic events happening around the Cape Cod murder case (the moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the Tate-LaBianca murders, good Lord, the 60s were quite the time to be alive). All of this while two world famous writers […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cape Cod, Casey Sherman, Helltown, kurt vonnegut, Massachusetts, Norman Mailer, Provincetown, serial killers, Tony Costa, true crime

Jake's CBR14 Review No:122 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Cape Cod, Casey Sherman, Helltown, kurt vonnegut, Massachusetts, Norman Mailer, Provincetown, serial killers, Tony Costa, true crime ·
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Babies, You Have to Be Kind

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

July 10, 2022 by esmemoria 4 Comments

I feel dumber with each review I write. I loved Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. It has one of my favorite literary passages of all time: “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it you’ve got to be kind.” But my brain won’t analyze it. It just loves […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: kurt vonnegut

esmemoria's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: kurt vonnegut ·
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Grab Bag

Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Basic Training by Kurt Vonnegut

The Ipcress File by Len Deighton

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

May 28, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Assassins of Thasalon – 3/5 Stars I fear I am starting to get some Penric-fatigue, and I hope it’s not Bujold fatigue as well. I have to say that the previous two entries in the series did little for me, and this one was more interesting, but won’t stay with me much longer. It’s also possible that’s where I’ve been all along with Penric, who is part of the World of the Five Gods, the world that Bujold has created that I care the least […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: kurt vonnegut, Len Deighton, lois mcmaster bujold, Thomas Mann, william faulkner

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:239 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: kurt vonnegut, Len Deighton, lois mcmaster bujold, Thomas Mann, william faulkner ·
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Grab Bag

Madame Maigret's Friend by Georges Simenon

The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung

The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin

The Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon

Mrs Bridge by Evan Connell

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut

The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

April 18, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Madame Maigret’s Friend – 4/5 Stars I liked this Maigret more than a lot of others I’ve read. Our mystery involves someone being arrested with a bloody coat hanging in his closet and the burnt remains of a body in his furnace. HIs lawyer maintains that he’s completely innocent of any wrongdoing (including questioning whether or not it’s actually known for sure that wrongdoing has occurred) because of the failure to link physical evidence to the crime. This becomes a bit of a musing on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Schopenhauer, Carl Jung, Evan Connell, georges simenon, isaiah berlin, john steinbeck, kurt vonnegut, Rachel Carson, Walker Percy

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:161 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Arthur Schopenhauer, Carl Jung, Evan Connell, georges simenon, isaiah berlin, john steinbeck, kurt vonnegut, Rachel Carson, Walker Percy ·
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