Dan's review
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
Dan's review
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Dan's review
rating:
recommended for: everyone
This is one of my favorite books. I picked this book up and read it through in one sitting. I couldn't put it down I was so engaged.
This book presents the moral dilemma of Howard W. Campbell Jr. an American who became a Nazi propagandist. However, he only became a Nazi propagandist because he was spying for the USA. Yet, he was a really good propagandist. His dilemma is this: Does the good of spying for America obviate and out weigh the evils he did by making propaganda for the Nazis or do his sins and virtues in both roles exist independently?
I had never considered a moral dilemma like this before.
It is a great story about how a person can do evil when they are trying to do good as well as how one man can be destroyed in the clash of two countries.
This book is amazingly well written, thought provoking and powerful. I recommend it to everyone.
I read this book because my roommate recommended it and because I like Kurt Vonnegut.
This book presents the moral dilemma of Howard W. Campbell Jr. an American who became a Nazi propagandist. However, he only became a Nazi propagandist because he was spying for the USA. Yet, he was a really good propagandist. His dilemma is this: Does the good of spying for America obviate and out weigh the evils he did by making propaganda for the Nazis or do his sins and virtues in both roles exist independently?
I had never considered a moral dilemma like this before.
It is a great story about how a person can do evil when they are trying to do good as well as how one man can be destroyed in the clash of two countries.
This book is amazingly well written, thought provoking and powerful. I recommend it to everyone.
I read this book because my roommate recommended it and because I like Kurt Vonnegut.
