Timequake | 
pickAfter reading Timequake, I was left wondering what Vonnegut would have thought about technology and science in our current climate, Post-COVID.
In the book, mankind has 10 years to figure out its next move and they don‘t or can‘t or won‘t. There‘s nothing more pessimistic than that… and of course the humanist in me agrees with the synopsis. If television is an eraser, what is Google, AI, and Social Media doing to our awareness?
I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
Day 26
#ABookADay2024
Kurt Vonnegut will forever be my favorite. **
#youarenotalone #kurtvonnegut #readmorevonnegut
#Bookaday Book 9.
Yay or nay?
My physical bookshelves are overflowing and I want to Marie Kondo them a bit.
So, I‘m posting #abookaday of my “maybes” and I hope you can help me decide.
Have you read this book? Should I? ❤️ or a hard pass? Is it on your wish list? Let me know below
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 26
#tbrpile #theTBRmountain
Oh my god I haven't even gotten to page 1 and I already know I'm gonna love this book
pickLoved this book even though I didn‘t understand a lot.
pickIt was great to revisit Vonnegut's absurd funhouse. He had abandoned a novel that refused to work and deconstructs it via rambling memoir. The concept of this failed novel is that a fart in the time space continuum causes the years 1991-2001 to repeat and everyone goes through them on autopilot. This book was written years before 9/11. Vonnegut is a cantankerous prophet and this was an enjoyable trip back to his universe.
Although maybe not as much of a classic as some of Vonnegut ‘s other works, Timequake does have #time in the title. I did give it a pick!
Next to it is the first Vonnegut I read 😄.
A few here are still TBR.
Review of Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons is from Time magazine, June 3 1974, was found inside that used book (TBR).
#Maylovesclassics
1.California, usa
2.pseudo-science fiction
3.The Jefferson Bible
4.hot dogs
5.a small annoying dog and a grumpy Russian tortoise
6.what does the man in the yellow hat do for a living?
@britt_brooke these are the Vintage Classic editions- and my older Hardbacks #Vonnegut #BookDepository
pick"Ting-a-ling, motherfucker.” - Kilgore Trout
This semi-autobiographical “stew” is kind of bonkers, but I liked it. A must read for established fans.
I‘m going to pretend that I didn‘t just email Wynkoop and ask if they‘ll ever bring back this beer. And also can it then distribute it to Nashville. 🙃😆🙋🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Finally getting back to some #Vonnegut; it‘s been a few months. The dust jacket for this one is really underwhelming. I had no idea it was so beautiful underneath! 😍
pickTimequake is my favorite read from September 2017. It's profoundly thoughtful and funny. Put it at the TOP of your list! I read 5 books in total. Not bad but I can do better!
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ting-a-ling! To be fair I had started Timequake before I made this #tbrbingo card, so this was just finishing it up. But I had been dragging this book out longer in order to savor it. It's rare to know while you are finishing each chapter, rather than at the end of the book, that this one is worth slowing down. Easily a solid 5 stars.
"I am eternally grateful to him, and indirectly to what Harvard used to be, I suppose, for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else may be going on."
pickThe title comes from a novel with a sci-fi premise that Vonnegut worked on without success. Apparently he gave up on that book. So instead, here he shares autobiographical thoughts and tidbits while inserting bits of the original plot. Kilgore Trout is here. This is one for fans of Vonnegut and his brand of humor. It shouldn't be a first read of his works. Am I the only one who thinks the cover design makes it look like a self-published book?
Sorry if all this is hard to read -- I really liked Vonnegut's thoughts on art here, in response to his brother (retired scientist) who took up making art but would not sign the pieces or explain the why or how about them. I especially like this: "Pictures are famous for their humanness, and not for their pictureness". I need to get back to making art again!
So this is Vonnegut's description of writing 😂. This morning, tried to find Breakfast of Champions in my TBR (I know it's there somewhere), so settled on Timequake instead. So far I'm enjoying this semi-autobiography where Vonnegut goes back and forth from his character Kilgore Trout to bits about his own life.
pickIn some ways this book was rough going for me. It's shifting episodic structure and often zany tone frequently annoyed me. However, it has just enough humorous and thoughtful passages to make me glad I read it. Additionally, I was moved by the author's obvious love for his brother as expressed in the epilogue.
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgedly-piggedly, any which way. Then they go over it painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one.
Nothing wrecks any kind of love more effectively than the discovery that your previously acceptable behavior has become ridiculous.
There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
so-soA masterpiece but, "not for everybody". Vonnegut weaves a book out of a science fiction story that never came together and personal musings. It's like listening to the old man down the street wax eloquent. The story explores the effect of living in an inescapable rerun. More memoir than story.
