Cannonball Read 10

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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In which I parody Kurt Vonnegut to stick it to cancer

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

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CBR 10 Bingo: Birthday – Kurt Vonnegut born November 11, 1922 This is Kim Pendergest, Cannonball Read 10’s reporter on the Afterlife. During yesterday’s controlled near-death experience, I interviewed Kurt Vonnegut and asked him to explain why he decided to write God Bless Dr. Kevorikian. “So what’s the deal?” I asked. “Was this just a cash-grab?” “Not at all,” he said, “I started writing these as 90-second spots for WNYC, the public radio station for New York City.” “Thanks for the exposition, but I know that already. And that’s all well and good, but why bind these into a book […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Not With a Bang but an Ice Nine Whimper

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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I have a rather large back log of books to review and, I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been trying to squeeze them into as many bingo slots as possible. So when I went looking for author birthdays I was completely delighted when I found Kurt Vonnegut had been born on November 11th. This places him within the required time line and Cat’s Cradle fills the Birthday slot on my bingo card (and guys, I’m so close to Bingo). So this book, like a lot of Vonnegut’s work, has been sitting kind of casually in my TBR pile as something I’d […]

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8/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

I really need to reread Vonnegut

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young by Kurt Vonnegut

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When I was growing up, my dad had every single Vonnegut paperback published before the mid-nineties. I read them all when I was young, focused on the fact that I was so precocious for reading Vonnegut, but not understanding a damn thing. This collection of speeches — primarily given at graduations, but also one for an award — makes me want to reread them all again, now that I might actually appreciate his words. “My Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now, one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when times […]

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3/16/2017 's CBR9 Review No:65 |

The Early Days of the Planet Tralfamadore

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

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The Sirens of Titan was one of the first Vonnegut novels I ever read, but this is the first time I’ve read it since. I had forgotten whole swaths of the plot, though the central moral has remained burned in my mind ever since: “I was the victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.” But other than that, I found the whole book quite a surprise. While I was reading, I was constantly reminded of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This novel has the same loopy, irreverent sense of humor as Douglas Adams’s series. It stands […]

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12/20/2016 's CBR8 Review No:48 |

In which I justify why I hadn’t read this yet

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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I nearly always struggle reviewing classics, or if not yet “classic,” the darlings of mid-century American literature. They’re beloved and enduring for a reason, and yet, a lot of them, being “of their time,” may not hold up well or for whatever reason fail to command the attention of the modern reader. A lot of people will take that as an excuse to belittle the modern reader. I will not. I will also struggle with reading someone like Vonnegut, whose work implies layers upon layers of meaning and about whom people tend to philosophize. Once upon a time, I was […]

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10/11/2016 's CBR8 Review No:78 |

Vonnegut’s little war book.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.” So basically everyone I’ve ever talked to has read this book before me, and I’m kinda pissed off about that. Why didn’t y’all tell me I needed to read this? I know most people had to read it in high school, but I didn’t read any of the books normally assigned […]

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2/9/2016 's CBR8 Review No:23 |


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