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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9592.Mother_Night?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Mother Night" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031124m/9592.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9592.Mother_Night?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Mother Night</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/998584.Kurt_Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18013895?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>This is my FAVORITE vonnegut book which is weird because it is not as quintessentially vonnegut as the other books on my list. however, i love the context (and i can actually talk about it here because it has a reasonable plotline).. It is about different characters and different roles people played in nazi germany. and one of the major ideas in it is: "you are who you pretend to be so be careful who you pretend to be" which is such a great concept. Who are we but the actions we take? Are we more than that? Can our intentions save us? Can we justify our choices with intention? Does it all even out in the end? Whoa. I think that this book was the first time I realized that we create a life around us and the subtle ways that we may love and care for each can get drown out by our more superficial actions. Perhaps, the person who recycles but still buys the gas-guzzling car. Well, they are seen much more in the car than putting a can in the recycling bin so does the car out way it. What if the car was bought to carry massive ammounts of recycling material to the dumpster? But is also used for other things which pollutes the environment? I'm not sure if that is the best analogue but you get it. (or at least you get that i was a philosophy major in undergrad) Anyway, read it whether you like vonnegut or not. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/997391?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>