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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593.Galapagos?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Galapagos" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031125m/9593.gif" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593.Galapagos?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Galapagos</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/4378792?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 1 of 5 stars<br/> This is without a doubt the worst book I have ever read. I wonder after reading this, how much Vonnegut had to pay the editors and press to even deem this book publishable. This book fails on every level, as a political warning against nuclear weapons, in character development, book narration (this book was narrated by a ghost one million years in the future...Kurt probably consulted a kindergartner for this), book structure, simple entertainment and more. If Kurt Vonnegut was going to try to write a satire about how the human race's brains were too big for their own good and the perils of nuclear warfare, he shouldn't have written such a joke of a book. <br/> <br/> Believing at first this to be a linear story, I was annoyed to hear the narrator (at first seemingly the author) abruptly interupt the story several times talking about his own experiences, like anyone cares at that point. Also, in about the first 20 pages, the author describes vividly the ending of the book, and I was livid. I was "kindly" reminded again about every ten pages, so the mystique of not knowing what would happen was obliterated and made me feel like not finishing the book. But I did, because I am a faithful reader, and was severly disappointed about how much time I had wasted. The characters were dry and boring, and almost all of the narrators interjections and character additions were nonsequential and pointless. Almost at the end of the book, we discover the narrator to be a one million year old ghost, which makes the book even more corny. I no longer have any respect for Kurt Vonnegut's writings because of this pretensious piece of trash, except for "Cat's Cradle" <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/265183?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>