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    <body><![CDATA[I am waiting for my husband to finish this book; then it will be my turn although he has already read various parts to me  that he finds particularly interesting. The onlynovelist that John reads is Kurt Vonnegut; this Christmas season he has put his Ebay business on &quot;vacation&quot; status and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41824701">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of essays and reminiscences is likely as close to an autobiography as we're going to get.  It's really great, and Vonnegut is brutally honest regarding his own background and shortcomings.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The joke at the beginning was the joke at the end.&quot; Anyone who can say that and then also give Nelson Algren credit for Simone de Beauvior's first orgasm deserves 5 stars. That's all I am saying. Read it! Read it! Read it! He also provides this tasty little treat, &quot;The most satisfied...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44048767">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion the best part was we shouldn't strive to Christianly love one another but rather humanely respect one another.<br/><br/>&quot;'Ye shall respect one another.'  Now there is something almost anybody in reasonable mental health can do day after day, yearn in and year out, come one, come...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32324816">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this book more times than I can remember.  The architecture of a soul.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great collection of essays.  In some ways more accessible than his novels.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my third time to read this. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Vonnegut book, I must admit.  The essays didn't flow very well, but were still near-brilliant.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As I was finishing this book, I was thinking about a couple of years ago when I was on the bus and I was reading &quot;Welcome to the Monkeyhouse,&quot; and a guy started talking to me about Vonnegut.  He mentioned that he was sad that he only had a few more books of his to read.  Now that I'm at th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27521872">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A jumble of Vonnegut (essays and such that don't always fit together) -- but still fascinating for fans of Vonnegut's perceptions and prejudices. And maybe these ramblings allow a bit more insight into the man. I think so.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While <em>Sirens of Titan</em> is my favorite Vonnegut book, this is an amazing collection of patchwork essays, speeches, and thoughts.  Vonnegut is the most real, the most accessible, in this piece.  Highly recommended read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[collection of speeches &amp; essays, he reflects on religion, war and his second marriage - with a steadily more jaundiced eye. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons" title="Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons">Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons</a> is still my favorite Vonnegut non-fiction, I think. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[definitely not the best set of Vonnegut essays and a little bit of a disappointment as my final Vonnegut book. Unless I can get a copy of canary in a cathouse and his screenplays I'll have read everything he ever published.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just don't see what the big deal is with this guy.  This book is inconsistent: some parts are hold your sides funny while others are boring, and the pace and thread of the little narratives is stilted.]]></body>
    
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