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Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut
by Kurt Vonnegut
I can't really explain why I didn't like this one more than I did. I did some vigorous head-nodding with the message, and it's an at-least-decent showing for a first novel, and there are moments that seem downright prescient for something written 60 years ago. So why did I keep nodding off in the middle of it? Why did I entertain thoughts of abandoning it? It's a 2-star book with several 4-star moments, but not enough to average out to 3-stars. Not for me. Were my expectations too high? Was I spoiled by
Slaughterhouse-Five
and
Breakfast of Champions
?
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Quotes Rob Liked
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. [...] Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
Reading Progress
| 05/30/2012 | page 38 |
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13.0% | |
| 06/10/2012 | page 257 |
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85.0% | ""Bourbon and water."" |
| 06/10/2012 | page 270 |
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89.0% | "Chapter 28: almost prescient about college football, it is." |
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May 31, 2012 04:17pm
Fine, but please read Mother Night at some point. It is some of his best work. :)
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Jason wrote: "Fine, but please read Mother Night at some point. It is some of his best work. :)"Will do. But this one keeps coming up in conversation and I haven't read it. So...
