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Having been sitting on my bookcase at home for a number of years, after which on my shelf in halls for almost one other yr, I lastly learn this quick Vonnegut novel final summer time.
Devouring it inside a number of days, I couldn’t assist however really feel pissed off at having postpone studying it for thus lengthy. Perhaps the blurbs’ point out of weapons of mass destruction led me to deduce that the novel can be dense (it was as a substitute busy) – or it’s extra possible that I lacked the gumption to open the damned factor.
Either means, I like to recommend this absurd novel to you in the present day. Vonnegut crafts an immersive world involving investigative writing, household feuds, an oppressed island pseudo-Eastern faith (with its personal religiouspeak), and the existential menace of ‘ice-nine’.
A fable of types, furnished with the sharp wit of Vonnegut (given the very actual menace of nuclear annihilation in 1963), which flows splendidly right through. One to not go away on the bookshelf.
