Lorenzo's review
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
Lorenzo's review
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Lorenzo's review
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2007-readings
Kurt Vonnegut at his best.
I've bought this book at Shakespeare & Co. in Vienna. Actually I was looking for "Cat's cradle" but there the bookseller -I guess he was Canadian, by the way- has suggested me to take this one. It has been a bit difficult to find this novel among the highest shelves of that small and cosy bookshop but I've managed to. Standing on the old wooden ladder of Shakespeare & Co. I've risked to fall down twice. Anyway, I'm safe and sound.
And I've got my Sirens of Titan.
Prepare yourself to be kidnapped by this book. It is simply amazing the way in which Vonnegut reinvents science fiction here satirizing about it with a great competence. At the same time this novel expresses very well two of the greatest passions of Vonnegut: the creation of a new mass religion and the smallness, the unimportance of Earthlings in the drawing of a Universe in which the whole mankind is just a pawn.
As usually, Vonnegut is full of wit and sometimes you've got ...more
I've bought this book at Shakespeare & Co. in Vienna. Actually I was looking for "Cat's cradle" but there the bookseller -I guess he was Canadian, by the way- has suggested me to take this one. It has been a bit difficult to find this novel among the highest shelves of that small and cosy bookshop but I've managed to. Standing on the old wooden ladder of Shakespeare & Co. I've risked to fall down twice. Anyway, I'm safe and sound.
And I've got my Sirens of Titan.
Prepare yourself to be kidnapped by this book. It is simply amazing the way in which Vonnegut reinvents science fiction here satirizing about it with a great competence. At the same time this novel expresses very well two of the greatest passions of Vonnegut: the creation of a new mass religion and the smallness, the unimportance of Earthlings in the drawing of a Universe in which the whole mankind is just a pawn.
As usually, Vonnegut is full of wit and sometimes you've got ...more
