Derek's review
Slapstick
by Kurt Vonnegut
Derek's review
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Derek's review
rating:
bookshelves:
read--fiction
recommended for: Anyone who likes Vonnegut or who appreciates a good dystopia.
Fantastic book (thanks for the tip, Nessa). The King of America-- a deformed half-genius who, among other things, wrote a guide to parenting that outsold the Bible and instituted government-issued middle names in an attempt to extend families (his was Daffodil-11)-- tells his life story from his dilapidated Manhattan home in the final days of civilization. Vonnegut writes stories that should be utterly ridiculous but that somehow turn out to be razor-sharp and almost painfully insightful. Social satire abounds. "Lonesome no more!"
