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Kurt Vonnegut
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Publisher | Bloomsbury | ||
ISBN | 0747586055 | ||
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Janice
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This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the form of a loose memoir, "A Man without a Country" is an intimate and tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always searching and ultimately wise and compassionate.
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This book is hilarious and astutely funny as he turns onto politics and incidents from his life. It has been written over a period of time and between some of the chapters, is a reversed printed page ie white on black instead of the norm which are witticisms of a known fact like this one and I quote:
"Do you think Arabs are Dumb?..... They gave us numbers - try doing long division with Roman Numerals!" On a dull day quips like this certainly make you laugh.
There are quips about America and also about our planet when he talks about the State of the Union Address by George Bush. He said it reminded him of what our great British socialist playwright George Bernard Shaw said about this planet. "What was that?" replied his friend. "I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they must be using Earth as their lunatic asylem" and he wasn't talking about the germs and the elephants. He meant us the people.
We are killing this planet as alife-support system with the poisons from all the thermodynamic whoopee ..... with atomic energy everybody knows it but knowbody cares."
I loved the book and would reccomend it to anyone who wants a short book for a journey.
Its the funniest book I have read in a long time and I was laughing out loud virtually the whole way through it.

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