In high school I read Slaughter House Five and absolutely loved it. I quickly made it my mission to read all of his books. He’s one of my absolute favorite writers of all times and just an amazing human. This was so awesome to add to my home library collection as well.
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Kurt Vonnegut had a recurring segment on public radio which provided the fodder for this engaging short work. In a series of 21 interviews, conducted "from the death chamber in Huntsville" by dying at Dr. Kevorkian's hands only to be revived at the interview's conclusion, Vonnegut maps out a periphery of the humanist ideals. Not merely entertaining quips, but a roadmap for what is right and wrong, and why we humans ought...
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Vonnegut's sense of humor is as ascerbic as ever. He speaks to us "from the death chamber in Huntsville" (Texas). Those of us from Texas have long had cause to be ashamed of that particular place, but Vonnegut's use of it may be the only one that wouldn't embarrass us. The "interview" with Isaac Asimov is priceless. You will be pleased to hear that Asimov is still writing, although avoiding the embarrassment of publishing...
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Thank you Mr. Vonnegut for doing what 100 mg of Prozac a day cannot do. What an inspiration for holding on to one's ideals! Don't read it in the book store. The money goes to a good cause. If I had money I would buy this book for every depressed English-speaking person in the world; that is, most of us. Also, it is a good place to keep a stirring quote by Eugene V. Debs at hand.
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Old Kurt has done it again...Further pushing back the walls of reality to make room for his outlandish yet all too believable fiction. In "God Bless You, Dr Kevorkian" Vonnegut presents written transcripts from the post-mortem interviews he's conducted with dead celebrities(both well known and obscure) through controlled near death experiences courtesy of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. It is through these fictional interviews that...
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