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By Stephanie · 19 posts · 127 views
last updated Feb 20, 2015 07:14AM
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Popsugar 2020 - A book published in the month of your birthday. I have gone a step further and found a book that was published on the same day I was born!
Well, that was an unusual book!
Well, that was an unusual book!
I have no idea why it took me so long to read this book. The best part is that I loved it, couldn't put it down, AND I can cross one more piece of great lit off the to read lit. Nice!! If only more writer's had Vonnegut's combo of humor and imagination. This is good stuff. The entire time I was reading it, I couldn't imagine how they could make a movie of this so I watched it the second I closed the book. Yeah. Had I not read the book, I would have had NO IDEA what was going on.
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I read this book because it is referenced in the movie "Footloose" which is one of my favorites. The book is strange and didn't make much sense to me. I am sure it is dripping with symbolism and other such hidden messages, but I didn't catch all of them.
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This book reminded me of days as a volunteer listening to a dementia patient as I kept him company on the days his family didn’t visit. It also reminded me of that honor of working with veterans at the VA and the lack of straightforward recovery after all they had seen while enlisted. I knew that only way I was going to get through this one was on audio and was glad to find a version narrated by Ethan Hawke. It helped me stay engaged and seek out more until the conclusion. “So it goes” at each d
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This was my first Vonnegut. So it goes.
And goes no more. I enjoyed this more than I expected to. This poor guy clearly has some serious PTSD from being in World War II. So much so that he believes he time travels (or maybe he really does), AND is captured and put in a zoo by aliens, where he impregnates a famous movie star.
Sound crazy?
Yeah.
So it goes.
And goes no more. I enjoyed this more than I expected to. This poor guy clearly has some serious PTSD from being in World War II. So much so that he believes he time travels (or maybe he really does), AND is captured and put in a zoo by aliens, where he impregnates a famous movie star.
Sound crazy?
Yeah.
So it goes.
Like many of V’s books, I wonder about the editing sometimes.
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