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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. 1w
AvidReader25 @Ruthiella oh I bet it was! Now I need to check that out. 1w
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britt_brooke
Deadeye Dick: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut
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Huge shoutout to my local used book shop for this beautiful 1982 Vonnegut!

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Schnoebs
Galapagos: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut
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Bailedbailed

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. 3mo
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 3mo
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. 3mo
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
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Robotswithpersonality
Mother Night: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut
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“...no good reason...“

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Texreader
Galapagos: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut
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Ebook on sale. Reminder Vonnegut is our #authoramonth in September

@Soubhiville

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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

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.

TieDyeDude 6mo
Ruthiella My favorite quote from Vonnegut. 6mo
Leftcoastzen Miss him❤️ 6mo
willaful @Leftcoastzen sigh, yeah. 6mo
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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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