false <![CDATA[The Sirens of Titan]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173564489m/304752.jpg 4982 39 When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan -- one of Saturn's moons -- is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft... 905970 book 1959 The Sirens of Titan total:10427|5:3808|4:3923|3:2232|2:410|1:54| 10427 42302 13100 595 4 13 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974 Thu Nov 20 03:20:01 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 27 10:45:36 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Apr 03 11:22:33 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 03 12:34:25 -0700 2007 Vonnegut takes the reader through an emotional space-coaster ride as he convinces us life is full of good and bad luck, life is meaningless, God is indifferent, we are pawns in mundane tasks for other worlds, and finally, the reason that we are all here (I won't give it away, though).

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Actually, the quotes were really good.


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"Winston Niles Rumfoord's smile and handshake dismantled Constant's high opinion of him...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 16:19:07 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 09:19:38 -0700 2008
This most definately was Vonnegut's mantra when regarding the human race, and how we plan and scheme in the face of total f...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Tue Nov 06 23:07:39 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 23:30:37 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Aug 16 23:33:35 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 09:19:29 -0700 2007 I've bought this book at Shakespeare & Co. in Vienna. Actually I was looking for "Cat's cradle" but there the bookseller -I guess he was Canadian, by the way- has suggested me to take this one. It has been a bit difficult to find this novel among the highest...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 03 12:33:26 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 12:59:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed May 23 14:00:39 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 14:44:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 08:53:20 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:57:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Apr 01 14:57:20 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 14:59:30 -0700 2009 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 08:38:30 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 08:52:53 -0700 2007
read the book with a friend and then drink a hundred c...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 00:33:03 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 00:42:30 -0700 2009 The Sirens of Titan. A review should focus on the storyline, the characters, the technical quality, etc. All these are of no importance in this timeless masterpiece by Vonnegut. So what else is in here? Ideas, raw, abounding, and nevertheless shining ideas (You could easily...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 17:58:23 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 18:39:34 -0700 2009 Player Piano because it was very dark.

I found this book to be very dark. Too dark for me. Winston Rumford screwed over his wife and some guy he didn'...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 05 21:35:24 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 17:19:42 -0800 2009
Sirens of Titan has the familiar Vonnegut craziness...time travel, robots and aliens from other planets meddling with hu...more...]]> 2 0 false true Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 04 17:04:20 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 20:05:04 -0700 2009
The characters are interesting, the story is even more interesting, and the world is alive. So... what's the...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 04 11:32:47 -0700 2007 Fri May 15 18:58:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 24 02:36:58 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:31:18 -0800 2009
But there the similarity ends. Siren...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 23:53:39 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 12:43:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=304752