While many Vonnegut lovers have divided opinions of this book I loved it just as much as I have ever loved any of his works. It was different for sure, but it was a wonderful way to relive pieces of his novels and stories and see them be brought together in a new way. Any chance I get to experience more of Vonnegut I will always readily take.

Hard to know what to make of this as it's a script to an obscure TV movie that wasn't written by Vonnegut but based loosely on elements from his work. Easy reading though and takes all of about 20 minutes to finish

Not sure what to make of this. Lacking Vonnegut’s humour.

Okay I have read a few experimental and hard to classify books in my time but I think this one is one of the more "different" ones I have come across.

Basically this is a screen play of an experiment show covering the blasting off in to space the first poet -astronaut who was a winner of a food jingle content. Yes another classic piece of work by Kurt Vonnegut - although I will admit one of his lesser know pieces.

I think rather than facing the challenge of describing a book without letting spoilers slip in the case of this books is trying to describe it at all. I will be the first to admit I have very limited experience of the works of Mr Vonnegut but I will admit that he loves the subtleties and this books exhibits a number of things - from cameos of character from other works to sending up the whole media of tv and film. I get the feeling here is an author you can spend as much time as you can reading and still find something new every time.

Written as a script to a teleplay with monochromatic photo reproductions on every page, including some pages with only images, it makes for an unchallenging read. The concept here seems to have been to present a medley of Kurt Vonnegut's ideas to a television audience framed as a man unable to control his interdimensional time travel. Anyone sufficiently familiar with Vonnegut's work will recognize the dramatization of short scenes from his previous novels. As such, there is no real conclusion other than to serve as a Kurt Vonnegut primer for a television science fiction audience. We may finally stump YouTube now that this play has piqued my curiosity in the theatrical production.

Interesting screenplay...

I'm not really sure what to do with this.

It's a bunch of Vonnegut cut and paste into one story, and I haven't read enough Vonnegut pick up on all the source material, so some of it is new to me and some of it is old.

no thanks not for me

Being familiar with a good deal of the works sampled herein, I was delighted at the re-imagining and re-combining of old favorites, and I found the photographic accompaniments enthralling if not always illuminating.

Very quick read (less than four hours), depending on how lost you get in the photos. Definitely a work I will re-visit from time to time.


As a side note, I love that you can now note the date you STARTED a book as well as the date you ended it!

so so

This was another play, so it was a quick read due to it's format. This one has way more pages with just pictures than Happy Birthday Wanda June. The story is sort of a mix of previous Kurt Vonnegut Jr. story elements. The way the main character jumps around from happening to happening, seems almost psychedelic. I'd like to seek out the movie presentation of this.

Interesting. I am reading his books in order written so I was familiar with all the characters in the story. I would like to see the tv production