Kalilah's review
Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut
Kalilah's review
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Kalilah's review
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It's touching and heart-breaking, genius and of course humorous. A rare look into the brilliance that is Vonnegut, who himself narrates the story. Different from any other pieces from his cannon and in my opinion superior in large part due to its sincerity. Vonnegut puts his family, ancestry and life into the narrative and reaches out to the reader in a more intimate way than in any previous novel.
He writes at one point, “what most people want…what many people need desperately to receive is this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.”
This book is more than just horizontal lines on wood pulp. It is genius. It is a communication between one human being and another. Vonnegut’s side of it may be more humorous and fanciful but it is also vulnerable, tragic, earnest and human.
He says of books, that they “ were devices as crassly practical for storing or transm...more
He writes at one point, “what most people want…what many people need desperately to receive is this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.”
This book is more than just horizontal lines on wood pulp. It is genius. It is a communication between one human being and another. Vonnegut’s side of it may be more humorous and fanciful but it is also vulnerable, tragic, earnest and human.
He says of books, that they “ were devices as crassly practical for storing or transm...more
