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The_Penniless_Author
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A collection of Vonnegut's previously published short stories that were not included in Welcome to the Monkey House. Like most short story collections, the quality varies - a few were truly excellent, most good, and a few "meh". As a document of a writer in the process of finding himself, I would highly recommend it. It was cool to see so many of the elements of his later novels popping up here in fits and starts.

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caffeinated
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“If this isn't nice, what is?“

#SchoolSpirit #Essays

Eggs Brilliant 🥳 2mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#Graduation 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

#SchoolSpirit 🏫🎒🔔👩‍🏫🚌✏️🍎📓📚

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Eggs ❤️❤️👩🏻‍🎓💙💙 2mo
caffeinated I love Kurt Vonnegut! 2mo
aa_guer2021 Maybe I started with the wrong book, but this author did not dazzle me as I thought he would. 😞🤔 2mo
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The_Penniless_Author
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

At noon, Wednesday, July 26th, windowpanes in the small mountain towns of Sevier County, Tennessee, were rattled by the shock and faint thunder of a distant explosion rolling down the northwest slopes of the Great Smokies.

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MaggieCarr
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Confetti #1 (Peculiar Travel Suggestions...) 2004
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catiewithac
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Mehso-so

It wasn‘t a great play when it first premiered and it didn‘t age well. Vonnegut‘s problematic misogyny and homophobia really sticks out here. A necessary read for Vonnegut completists but everyone else may skip.

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britt_brooke
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters | Kurt Vonnegut
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Broke out my #Vonnegut pint glass. Best gift ever from @HeatherBookNerd 🩶 It‘s a beautiful evening in Tennessee, and the cicadas are calm (for now).

#dogsoflitsy

HeatherBookNerd And look at your beautiful dog. Looks like a nice evening. 6mo
britt_brooke @HeatherBookNerd Zero complaints! 6mo
Leftcoastzen 👏🐶🍺 6mo
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Cathythoughts Looks lovely and relaxing 🐶 6mo
TieDyeDude Cheers! 🍻 6mo
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Ruthiella
Mother Night: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

American Howard Campbell is brought up on charges of war crimes as a Nazi propagandist, 15 years after the war ended. Is he guilty or was he a pawn? In classic absurdist Vonnegut fashion, Campbell becomes a hero for US white supremacy groups. It‘s been a while since I read any Vonnegut, but this one felt more somber and realistic compared to others I‘ve read.

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Tamra
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Read this for IRL book club and I think I was the only one who liked it! It‘s a difficult tale to summarize but it‘s about the human condition. The absurdity he envelopes it in doesn‘t hide the sadness & consequences of loneliness. I read the prologue 3x because first, Vonnegut bares his soul in his own detached way, and second, it encapsulates the story which follows.

This is my first Vonnegut and I‘m glad to have read it.

Tamra It is scathing in the sense he criticizes all of our futile attempts to fill emotional voids with consumerism and conquest. But it also appears our misguided natures carry on into the afterlife. 🫢 (edited) 7mo
TheBookHippie I‘ve found ppl love or loathe his writings. I read his earlier stuff in my younger years, I‘ve not read anything published after 1980s. 7mo
Tamra @TheBookHippie I can definitely see he would be a cilantro writer! 7mo
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Ruthiella Great review! “Cilantro writer” 😂 I love him and his exasperation at human behavior, but for sure understand why some don‘t like his works. I‘m glad you liked it though. 👍 7mo
Tamra @Ruthiella which is your favorite? 7mo
Ruthiella I‘m certainly not even close to becoming a completist (yet). Bluebeard was my first and my favorites are Galapagos, Ca‘s Cradle and the most famous (edited) 7mo
Tamra @Ruthiella thanks for the tip! I really should try Slaughterhouse Five. 7mo
Leftcoastzen I adore him ! He just gets it . I couldn‘t pick a favorite. I probably should reread, see if I still agree with myself. 😄 7mo
Tamra @Leftcoastzen I‘m sometimes afraid to reread for fear of a book not holding up. 7mo
Leftcoastzen @Tamra me too! 7mo
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rretzler
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#ThreeListThursday Just short stories because I have a different list for novellas! 1. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut. 2. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin 3. There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury

dabbe #'s 1 and 3: Bradbury at his finest! I'd love to see your favorite novellas, too! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 7mo
rretzler @dabbe For novellas, I think I‘d go with Who Goes There by John G Campbell, Anthem by Ayn Rand, and All Systems Red by Martha Wells. I‘m sure that there is probably an Isaac Asimov novella that I‘m forgetting about, as well. 7mo
dabbe @rretzler Yay! Three more for the TBR! 🤩 7mo
rretzler @dabbe Just what we all need - more books for the TBR! 🤣 7mo
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