Plain and simple, you'd be a fool to believe that early Vonnegut is better than later Vonnegut. It's almost like they are two different men. Early Vonnegut, like David Eggers stated in the forward to this collection, was a man with an extensive family to support, writing by a formula for a market to eat it up. Does this mean it's work not worth reading? No.

Early Vonnegut was as much a genius as Later Vonnegut, just in different regards. You won't get the same caliber of work in the collection that you would find in Cat's Cradle or Slaughter-house Five or Galapagos, but you will still find well-crafted pieces that keep you entertained and leave you with a definite moral. Through the words, you can see the signs of transition shining through the black ink, a glimmer of what Vonnegut was soon to be.

Though they may be different in many ways, Early Vonnegut and Later Vonnegut are still the same man, and that man was one of the world's greatest geniuses. Nothing that he put down on paper should go un-read.