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Anonymous
Posted February 12, 2008
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The suggestion that some of these stories are not as strong as others is the worst form of nit-picking and critical snobbery. Kurt Vonnegut was [and is] a treasure. Every word he wrote was delivered with the honest intentions of a man who always seemed to be trying to tell us all something more important than what he feared most were prepared to hear. Listen, as you read, to the beating heart and sage wisdom of a true original trying to find hope in the hopeless. Vonnegut's unassuming yet richly detailed rage for truth was far beyond the 'being clever for clever's sake' golden malady that suffocates most critics of modern literature. It's good to have another hug from a dear old friend, the kind we all needed.
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My first BN.com review
Fitting that my first review on BN.com be for Vonnegut. A true classic of literature and a must-read.
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terrific collection
This is a terrific collection by one of the great commentators on human condition in the since WW II. As always Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. uses wry humor to rip into those warmongers who always send someone else to die. The anthology contains nonfiction like the letter he sent to his dad in Indianapolis in which the GI Grunt explains he is fortunate to escape the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 and ¿Wailing Shall be In All the Streets¿ where he discuses his POW job of burying the dead in Dresden. The short story fictions are also haunting as the title story advocates that good can never win over evil because good needs evil to exist just like the world can never be at peace for that ¿Great Day' would lead to war the author makes the case that violence is in the human DNA even the very young look to fight. This anthology is a fitting final tribute by the late great author who throughout displays his droll sense of the paradox that makes up the ¿Guns and Butter¿ of life and death on planet earth. --- Harriet Klausner
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