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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4985.Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Welcome to the Monkey House" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517167m/4985.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4985.Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Welcome to the Monkey House</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/2695486?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>Vonnegut has a cute, optisimtic look at love and partnership in these short stories-- I found it very refreshing. Some stories struck a chord with me, some felt contrived, some felt like wonderful kooky B-movies with bad acting (awkward dialogue). I enjoyed the little snippets every so often that reminded me of what I love about his later novels-- I felt as though I was reading him searching for his writer's voice, and could hear it creeping out here and there. I wasn't blown away by this collection but it was a fun read. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/71032?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>