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Jailbird: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut

#Bibliophile #Birds A Jailbird in the stash !

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🙌🏻 2w

Eggs Perfect 🤍 🦜🖤 2w

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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. 1mo

AvidReader25 @Ruthiella oh I bet it was! Now I need to check that out. 4w

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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! 👍 1mo

Leftcoastzen Yay! 👏 1mo

LeahBergen Nice!! 1mo

Meshell1313 GORG! 😍 1mo

britt_brooke @Ruthiella @Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen @Meshell1313 🤩🩷 1mo

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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. 1mo

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Trashcanman @Beatlefan129 Thank you, I‘ll definitely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation. 🙌🏽 1mo

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. 🙌🏽 1mo

Trashcanman @Reggie Thanks Reggie, I appreciate it man. Hope all is well on your end. 🙌🏽 1mo

Trashcanman I was hoping for more recommendations. I thought more people liked short stories. 🤷🏽‍♂️ 1mo

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. 1mo

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. 3w

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. 3w

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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

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God DAMN. Okay, I get it, y'all were right. Vonnegut is an amazing writer and I'm so glad I didn't give up on him. As well as my father, I have the reading community at large to think for encouraging my persistence, any other author, three meh reads would have ended my interest, but there's such love for this writer's body of work, and such a variety in subject matter, it always felt worth another try. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? From meh, to good, to great. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the premise makes for excellent dialogue and discussions, and those contain some of the most impactful materials in the story, but what gets me is the mix between chillingly sharp commentary and an almost zany blend of circumstances liberally sprinkled with gallows humour. 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? The protagonist occupies both a fascinating villain origin story with glimpses of the tragic hero, yet there's an absurdist feel to the events, the conversations, somehow reflecting on what might be argued as the darkest period in recent human history. Vonnegut manages both impassioned speech and desert dry satire, and I am in awe at how nothing feel extraneous, perhaps it's the amount of talk vs action, but it felt more like a concisely 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? worded novell than a (fairly short) novel. I'd welcome those who've had more time to reflect on this book to bring me the issues I'm missing, but at the same time, I think that's the point, of you have an issue you wish to discuss as a result of this book, I think that's what Vonnegut wanted. Not to be a shit disturber, but to make sure the readership was thinking. 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 I've been nervous about the hype and what little I know if the premise of Slaughter House Five, but I don't think there will be a better time to try out what is arguably his most famous work than soon after I had such a memorable experience with this one....just have to get through the latest pile of library books first. 😅

⚠️animal death, recounting of Holocaust violence, war violence, mention of SA, slurs/outdated language (edited) 4mo

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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! 4mo

Soubhiville Thanks @Texreader ! 4mo

TheSpineView Goodie! Thanks 4mo

Yenya1954 Thanks for the info ! 4mo

Bklover Thanks Soubhi! 4mo

Bklover And thanks @Texreader ! 4mo

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. 4mo

AnishaInkspill thank you!!!! 4mo

julieclair Thanks for the heads up! 4mo

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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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