false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031126m/9594.jpg 9594 23 Think of <i>Timequake</i>, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time. <p> <i>Timequake</i>'s a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. 6835609 book 1997 Timequake total:6883|5:1396|4:2388|3:2249|2:687|1:163| 6883 24816 8586 305 1 2 false false Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 12:12:38 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 13:47:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 10:54:14 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 06:32:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Nov 13 21:52:28 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 10:58:52 -0800 2007
This is Vonnegut's last Novel, and he certainly goes out with a bang. The literary devices that Vonnegut uses throughout his ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 09:11:53 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 10 19:51:59 -0800 2007
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“My God,” I thought. “Is Vonnegut still writing? Where has he been?”

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For one year the whole world finds itself repeating the previous year, and their actions in it, with no free will. Doomed to fall mess up the same relationships, crash their cars, fail or succeed at work, and everything else that happened in the pas...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 08:48:38 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 12:08:56 -0700 2009 Timequake is an addictive jumble of many things: autobiography, science fiction, satire, elegy. The "timequake" itself is caused by the universe having a "crisis in self-confidence", questioning whether there is any point in expanding indefinitely. It returns to the state it was ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 03:58:44 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 20:27:47 -0700 2009 1 something.

This book is a mishmash of his original idea for the novel (which he calls Timequake One) and stories about his life, which together...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 11:11:26 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 09:21:29 -0800 2009
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