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Loading... God Bless You Dr. Kevorkianby Kurt Vonnegut (otherwise under Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I wish I would have heard the radio spots. These short pieces were clever and oh-so-Vonnegut, but they were far too brief. I really wish they would have been expanded for the book.I find myself wondering about Vonnegut's use of Dr. Kevorkian as a vehicle into the afterlife. Having read a decent amount of his stuff, I know that no details are chosen without reason. I think I'd like to have a near death experience and ask him about it. (  ) anoceandrowning | Jan 21, 2010 |  God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut, for such a good book. (  ) Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 | 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. ( ) -AlyssaE- | May 30, 2009 | 10.0  Listener42 | Sep 1, 2008 | 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*! (  ) the_awesome_opossum | Jul 4, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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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.
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