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Loading... God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel (original 1965; edition 1998)by Kurt Vonnegut (Author)
Work InformationGod Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut (1965)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Re-read in 2024. Not one of my favorites. A satirical look at class, money, society, love, sanity and belonging (or not), this one had an overriding mood of melancholy that left me feeling empty. Maybe that was the author's goal. If so, he succeeded admirably. ( ) On a roll with good books this year. Maybe more reason to continue cracking through my backlog. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a humorous-yet-depressing novel about greed and politics in America, starring the troubled main character Eliot Rosewater, who finds a way to love even the most "useless" of people, in an economical sense. Obviously, this is troubling to his Senator father, as well as an outsider who attempts to use his love for the people as justification to call him insane in the courts. Very direct in its message and heavy-handed in its themes as Vonnegut tends to be. Such an engaging read that I essentially finished it in a day. God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater... 2023-10-15: I didn't get far and I'll come back to it but it wasn't the escape I needed from Awake. 2023-11-10: I think it's a recurring thing with Vonnegut that I dislike his books at the beginning and then love them further in. This book is genius. Elliot is the Buddha and Jesus and Lao Tzu all rolled up in a wrapper of compassion. He sees that the bullshit is bullshit where everyone else thinks it's gold. He cares about people just because they're people and because of that everyone thinks he's insane. 2023-11-19: I'm kind ambivalent about this one. The whole story was about how insane Elliot was because he treats people with kindness and respect. Even Elliot thinks he's insane. He certainly doesn't seem to see that he's right and it's the rest of the world that's broken. Elliot may be the only person that Elliot doesn't treat with compassion. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inThe sirens of Titan; Mother night; Cat's cradle; God bless you, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut Novels & Stories, 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions / Stories by Kurt Vonnegut Has the adaptation
Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless. This is a novel about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money. It is the story of a millionaire's lunacy, the obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness of a nation. No library descriptions found. |
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