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Pros
Snyder's vivid imagination and outlandishness is second to none. He gets at controversial topics through a comical lense. Still funny, insightful and worth the read.
Sirens of titan is one of vonnegut's best books. The novel is about inequality, luck, happenstance and indifference to others. Vonnegut is the master of fabricating novels that have meaning far beyond their surface.
Devotees wear voluntary handicaps to compensate for their genetic luck. Probably the quote that best captures the author's actual view is, a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
This book has more wisdom and astonishing empathy in 80000 or so words than a bible. Book isn't immediately crazy, but it gets progressively so. For anyone, who is sick and tired of all the mediocre books that get pushed up the charts and recommendati... Read More
Cons
What a piece of junk. Technically it's a mess. What’s the point? This makes no sense. I think i was getting bored with the pace.
The humor and creativity feel like unrelated bits strung together along one of the worst plot lines ever created. What once seemed irreverent and provocative now just seems tired and phoned in. The characters are one-dimensional.
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This novel concentrates on some favorite themes of vonnegut those of inequality luck happenstance and indifference to others
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Vonnegut is the master of fabricating novels that have meaning far beyond their surface
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He is able to continue this fashion of writing in his 1959 novel sirens of titan
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Reading one of vonnegut’s novels is almost analogous to looking at a picasso painting in the sense that they are both abstract works with a clearly deeper meaning
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Hard to believe it was written in the 50s
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If you prefer someone who goes 20 pages using incredibly wellwritten large words to describe the setting of an annoying childs love for their mother proust then perhaps this is not for you
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Vonnegut is the king of the outrageous story with a twisted telling and a fairly simple message
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My parents named me after kurt vonnegut but they did not know it at the time
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With deep religious or is that antireligious philosophy at the heart of the story im drawn to the issue the characters have with freewill or the lack thereof
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