<![CDATA[Mother Night]]>

false <![CDATA[Mother Night]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233948781m/9592.jpg 9592 23 Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as a “true artist”* with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. *The New York Times “A great artist.”—Cincinnati Enquirer “Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer…a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time 1222244 1961 Mother Night total:8053|5:2853|4:3239|3:1710|2:220|1:31| 8053 32822 10120 417 5 4 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jul 27 12:38:07 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 12:46:19 -0700 2007
This book presents the moral dilemma of Howard W. Campbell Jr. an American who became a Nazi propagandist. However, he only became a Nazi propagandist be...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 01 17:29:47 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 17:38:56 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed May 09 00:53:06 -0700 2007 Wed May 09 01:03:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975 Thu Nov 20 03:19:41 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 04:23:12 -0800 2008 4 Vastly underrated piece of black comedy, about a World War 2 double agent whose cover is a Nazi propagandist in the style of Lord Haw-Haw. Vonnegut says in the preface that this is the only one of his books where he knows what the moral is. You are what you pretend to be, so be careful about w...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 11:43:56 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 13:28:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 30 16:13:37 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 25 13:40:25 -0800 2009 4 2 false false Sun Nov 23 10:14:57 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 10:36:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 21 08:08:40 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 31 12:23:14 -0700 2009 Deadeye Dick, though, I don't remember what's going to happen next, so I guess I'll keep going...

Actually, about a third of the way through, I found a folded-down corner, after which ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Apr 14 07:22:47 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 07:56:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Nov 30 19:23:56 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 19:46:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 13 11:46:02 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 19:38:04 -0800 2009 "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." We then are shuffled rapidly through a cast of post-war men and women wearing masks, decked out to publicly play an adopted role, whilst conceal...more...]]> 2 0 false true Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:13:02 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:14:56 -0800 2009
So I have just finished reading this book, basically read it in one day, I went through the book pretty fast so please make allowance if it appears that I have misunderstood or perhaps overlooked some important detail. I was left quite confused after reading this book and so I immedi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 09:18:50 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 09:19:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 23 09:50:38 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 09:52:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 31 11:06:50 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 06:47:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 08:16:12 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 16:44:23 -0700 2009 Mother Night is a book by the renowned author Kurt Vonnegut, a fictional story from the perspective of Howard W. Campbell Jr. Campbell Jr. was an American citizen who lived in Germany during World War II, and became a Nazi propagandist. Mother Night is a good read for anyone who has studied or is in...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 14:03:19 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 15:20:01 -0700 2009
It differs so greatly from his other war writing, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, in that the main charac...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Thu Oct 29 06:05:32 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 05:52:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 07:56:55 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 21:36:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 00:01:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 21:01:11 -0700 2009
This book is set in WWII Germany, post-war New York City, and a prison cell in Israel. It has no science fiction tropes. I did not find ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9592