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Loading... God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkianby Kurt Vonnegut
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut, for such a good book. ( )I love this book. I think that it was the first Vonnegut book that i had read. I love his near death experiences, and how he talks to people in the afterlife. Its just a very interesting way to think about things and how he is writing this book. It's a very short and easy read, but also makes you think why is he writing this. 10.0 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian is a very, very short book consisting of fictional interviews of dead people by Vonnegut. It was a neat idea, adapted from short interludes meant for radio, and I especially enjoyed his interviews with Hitler and Mary Shelley. My only regret is that the book wasn't *longer*! This book, a measly 80 pages, is such a quick read (25 minutes for me) that it's hard to resist, especially as it's one of the late, great Kurt Vonnegut's last published works. This book highlights what is so wonderful about Vonnegut's style: there's no pretense, no flash, no fanciness; just prose that's plain-spoken, clear, and remarkably incisive. The 21 "mock interviews" contained herein use a variety of personalities -- living and dead, common and famous -- to astutely show the complexity of what Vonnegut called his "disgust with civilization." But rather than feeling bitter or resentful, it's a rather beautiful exposition on life and existence. Surely worth reading over and over again. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743422007, Paperback)In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could death be a quality? A place? Not an ending but an occurrence that changes those to whom it happens?As a "reporter on the afterlife," Vonnegut bravely allows himself to be strapped to a gurney by his friend Jack Kevorkian and dispatched round-trip to the Pearly Gates. Or at least that's what he claims in the introduction to these thirty-odd comic and irreverent "interviews" with the likes of William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, and Clarence Darrow, bringing readers to an entirely new place -- a place to which only Vonnegut could bring us. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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