Really interesting conversation. What I honestly most appreciated about this book is the way it introduced me to Lee Stringer. Can't wait to read his book!

Short but good!!

I was hoping to get more insight of the two great minds, ideas about writing but it didn't live up to expectation. It was a quick read and I think it'd have been better if I had listened to watched the interview.
But the two concepts Lee talks about future novels is interesting:
- You are only as sick as your secrets.
- The door to hell is locked from the inside.

Una conversazione piacevole quanto veloce.
Tuttavia credo si dia maggior spazio alla figura di Lee Stringer facendolo scoprire anche ai lettori meno navigati questa personalità.
Mentre Kurt Vonnegut resto abbastanza di supporto anche come conversatore alla fine non è male ,tutto sommato!

this was a really short book. i really enjoyed it because i have not know much about Kurt Vonnegut at all.

What a sweet little book! Makes me realize how much I miss Kurt Vonnegut, and would like to read Stringer's book. About 16 years ago, these 2 authors sat down to be interviewed, in front of an audience. These are the transcripts, gathered to make a book. Delightful!

I wish it would have been longer. Vonnegut in his books, interviews, and musings make me think, as well as amuse me.

After reading the forward I realized I had already seen the first conversation on youtube. :/

Still a nice piece in my collection of everything Kurt Vonnegut.

Pleasant enough to pass the time, but inessential.

Really short, but really good.

A candid conversation about writing between grandmaster Kurt Vonnegut and former homeless correspondent, Lee Stringer.

I imagine that witnessing the live conversation was charming, but this transcript was honestly not worth the brief read. Everything interesting Vonnegut said was a paraphrase of something more polished in other writings. Stringer, who I had never encountered before this book, had more to offer, but most of it felt flat. Maybe he was a bit cowed by being in KV’s presence, maybe the transcript doesn’t do his oratory justice. Whatever it was, his best line was spoiled by the title of the book. (No surprise, it’s a great line.)

Two quotes worth extracting:
KV: “Well, you gave us a wonderful gift in the process of building your soul.” (Re: Lee’s book “Grand Central Winter”)

LS: “The condition of the world, as far as I’m concerned, is always about the personal stuff. We put it up on a big scale, but it’s *really* about the personal stuff.”

There, now you can go read something else!