Timequake review

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


At the beginning of this book the author tells us he tried and failed to write a novel called Timequake and rather than chuck the whole thing out he is going to salvage the best bits and combine them with other material (mostly autobiographical). After that, he refers to the failed novel as Timequake 1.

This is entertaining reading, but nowhere near as good as his best real novels are. I would compare it to Mark Twain's recently published Autobiography, in that both authors seem to write about what they want to write about on that particular day. Both are good enough at this to be entertaining, but Mark Twain is better.

You can't really call this a novel.

It is often said that a novelist's early work is his best, and this book tends to support that notion.




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