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This was a masterpiece ✨
I was surprised by the easy language and the complex topics it deals with at the same time. The narration made characters and even their little nuances visualisation to be an absolute treat.
The book delves into Science, Religion, Politics, Faith and the journey of life with humour , witticism and sarcasm.
For those loving Sci fi and a deeper introspection of the pros and cons of how far does the impact go, this would be an enjoyable read
A few excerpts that stayed with me :
1) Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”
2) Americans ,’” he said, quoting his wife’s letter to the Times , “ ‘ are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. "'
3)“I guess Americans are hated a lot of places.”
“People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty
4) People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say
5)Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?”
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
6) “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
7) “What hope can there be for mankind,” I thought, “when there are such men as Felix Hoenikker to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost all men and women are?”
And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon? which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?”
It doesn’t take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it:
“Nothing.”
8) Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.”
9) Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why go right ahead and scold Him. He’ll just smile and nod.
10) “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something , learns it and finds himself no wiser than before ", Bokonon tell us " He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
I was surprised by the easy language and the complex topics it deals with at the same time. The narration made characters and even their little nuances visualisation to be an absolute treat.
The book delves into Science, Religion, Politics, Faith and the journey of life with humour , witticism and sarcasm.
For those loving Sci fi and a deeper introspection of the pros and cons of how far does the impact go, this would be an enjoyable read
A few excerpts that stayed with me :
1) Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”
2) Americans ,’” he said, quoting his wife’s letter to the Times , “ ‘ are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. "'
3)“I guess Americans are hated a lot of places.”
“People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty
4) People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say
5)Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?”
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
6) “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
7) “What hope can there be for mankind,” I thought, “when there are such men as Felix Hoenikker to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost all men and women are?”
And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon? which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?”
It doesn’t take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it:
“Nothing.”
8) Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.”
9) Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why go right ahead and scold Him. He’ll just smile and nod.
10) “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something , learns it and finds himself no wiser than before ", Bokonon tell us " He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
