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Jailbird: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

#Bibliophile #Birds A Jailbird in the stash !

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🙌🏻 2mo

Eggs Perfect 🤍 🦜🖤 2mo

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AvidReader25

Bluebeard | Kurt Vonnegut

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The story follows a fictional abstract expressionist painter, Rabo Karabekian, who was also a WWII vet. The whole book dances around the mystery of what is he hiding in his huge potato barn. The payoff at the end was absolutely worth it. Rabo is a cynical man, but somehow also incredibly hopeful. It also explores the impact art can have on processing trauma. I love Vonnegut's work and this one falls in my top five for sure.

Ruthiella I think this was the first Vonnegut I read as a teen. The artist main character in Percival Everett‘s “Almost Blue” is also hiding something in his barn and I wondered if this was a hat tip to this book. 2mo

AvidReader25 @Ruthiella oh I bet it was! Now I need to check that out. 2mo

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britt_brooke

Deadeye Dick: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

Huge shoutout to my local used book shop for this beautiful 1982 Vonnegut!

Ruthiella Nice! 👍 3mo

Leftcoastzen Yay! 👏 3mo

LeahBergen Nice!! 3mo

Meshell1313 GORG! 😍 3mo

britt_brooke @Ruthiella @Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen @Meshell1313 🤩🩷 2mo

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Trashcanman

Welcome to the Monkey House | Kurt Jr. Vonnegut

What‘s your favorite collection of short stories and or essays? Welcome to the Monkey House is one of my favorites. Which would you recommend?

Beatlefan129 I really liked this one:

Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories

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mobill76 So many Bradbury collections are near and dear to me. Lately, I've been remembering stories from John Joseph Adams's "Wastelands" anthology. This is the way the world ends...

Wastelands

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Reggie The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams. The 1st volume. Nothing but zombie short fiction every which way. I loved it. 3mo

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Trashcanman @Beatlefan129 Thank you, I‘ll definitely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation. 🙌🏽 3mo

Trashcanman @mobill76 Thanks for the recommendation! I‘ll check it out, I‘ve heard of the author but I‘ve never read any of his books. 🙌🏽 3mo

Trashcanman @Reggie Thanks Reggie, I appreciate it man. Hope all is well on your end. 🙌🏽 3mo

Trashcanman I was hoping for more recommendations. I thought more people liked short stories. 🤷🏽‍♂️ 3mo

Billypar My favorites are probably Get in Trouble by Kelly Link, Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang, and Ficciones by Borges. And the two Alice Munro collections I've read - Open Secrets and The Love of a Good Woman. 2mo

Trashcanman @Billypar I just saw your review of the latest book of short stories. Did it bump any of these from the list? Thank you for this comment. 2mo

Billypar Once a book is on my all-time favorites list, I feel like it can never be bumped by a recent read, no matter how good. But it's also a short list, so there's definitely room to add the Crace. 2mo

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Schnoebs

Galapagos: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

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Ugh, this is so frustrating. I love a good classic sci-fi story, especially when it‘s talking about catastrophic events happening on earth and to the environment. I just couldn‘t get on with the writing style I think. I can see where the author was taking us and what they were trying to say but I just couldn‘t connect with any of it. I‘ve been trudging through this book for so long and I just need to give up.

#dnf #classicscifi #scifi

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Robotswithpersonality

Mother Night: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

“...no good reason...“

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Robotswithpersonality

Mother Night: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

So dangerous. 😔

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Texreader

Galapagos: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

Ebook on sale. Reminder Vonnegut is our #authoramonth in September

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DebinHawaii Thanks for the heads up! 5mo

Soubhiville Thanks @Texreader ! 5mo

TheSpineView Goodie! Thanks 5mo

Yenya1954 Thanks for the info ! 5mo

Bklover Thanks Soubhi! 5mo

Bklover And thanks @Texreader ! 5mo

CatLass007 Thanks @Soubhiville I‘ve always wanted to read something else by Vonnegut besides Slaughterhouse Five. It‘s a great book but I‘ve already read it twice. 5mo

AnishaInkspill thank you!!!! 5mo

julieclair Thanks for the heads up! 5mo

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LeftyDv

Timequake | Kurt Jr. Vonnegut

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After reading Timequake, I was left wondering what Vonnegut would have thought about technology and science in our current climate, Post-COVID.

In the book, mankind has 10 years to figure out its next move and they don‘t or can‘t or won‘t. There‘s nothing more pessimistic than that… and of course the humanist in me agrees with the synopsis. If television is an eraser, what is Google, AI, and Social Media doing to our awareness?

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willaful

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Kurt Vonnegut

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.

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