Mostafa Chizari
My father died many years ago now - of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust.
And so it goes...
This book is exquisitely chaotic and canonically deranged. Its fractured looping structure and deadpan takes are a perfect mirror for the sheer absurdity of war, and I loved how little interest Vonnegut has in making things neat or comforting. It's honest, strange, deeply human, and quickly becoming my favourite flavour of fiction.
As an audiobook, though, the constant jumps in chronology left me even more baffled than expected. Still brilliant, but I'd probably recommend reading over listening.
Also I lovedThe Gospel from Outer Space by Kilgore Trout, and I wish I could give it it's own review (which would definitely get 5 stars!)
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly extremely poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor.
The American poor are footless, mindless, and disinherited. They find each other hideous, and they have been brought up to believe that a man who is poor has only himself to blame.
They are afraid of each other's contempt, for they have no respect for themselves
My father died many years ago now - of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust.
And so it goes...
This book is exquisitely chaotic and canonically deranged. Its fractured looping structure and deadpan takes are a perfect mirror for the sheer absurdity of war, and I loved how little interest Vonnegut has in making things neat or comforting. It's honest, strange, deeply human, and quickly becoming my favourite flavour of fiction.
As an audiobook, though, the constant jumps in chronology left me even more baffled than expected. Still brilliant, but I'd probably recommend reading over listening.
Also I lovedThe Gospel from Outer Space by Kilgore Trout, and I wish I could give it it's own review (which would definitely get 5 stars!)
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly extremely poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.
It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor.
The American poor are footless, mindless, and disinherited. They find each other hideous, and they have been brought up to believe that a man who is poor has only himself to blame.
They are afraid of each other's contempt, for they have no respect for themselves