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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (January 16, 2007)
Kurt Vonnegut's comedic wit will surely be missed. His book "A Man Without a Country" says it all. He argues that the Bush administration's justification for committing an act of manifest destiny upon Iraq is hilarity at its most paramount. One statement that he makes on pages 77 will have you laughing out loud. Just make sure you don't disturb your neighbors. "Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so [-----] off at Arabs? They brought us Algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.".....Well, I thought it was funny.
Vonnegut also discusses the Mexican-American War and what Abraham Lincoln thought about it. As a matter of fact in the 1840's slavery was illegal there. So I guess that justified an invasion... right? The truth is the war was a land grab for California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. And rightwing Americans have the audacity to say that Latinos are illegal!
This book is great! Each quote is elegantly witty, yet enlightening. For example: "No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful." And he's right considering Black people created the music that is the very milieu of American culture today and the world's for that matter. Vonnegut states "African Americans gave the whole world when they were still in slavery, a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like us at least a little bit. That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.Read more ›
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I've always enjoyed Vonnegut, but this is Kurt speaking as Kurt. His own thought provoking thoughts and feelings,straightforward. A book. I didn't want to put down.
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Reviews like the one below by the 23-year-old who never had read Vonnegut before this current volume remind me of Mr. V.'s statement (I paraphrase, perhaps grotesquely) that the cumulative effect of the Vietnam-war protests and of '60s activism in general was that of a banana-cream pie hurled off a stepladder: here is unquestionably the Greatest of contemporary American novelists, whose work and vision as a whole provide clarity, wisdom, and guidance with humor and love for both the survival of the species and for America--yet he remains largely ignored and neglected by the current American demos, for whom democracy is named, and reviewed by only 24 or so while the latest potboiler gets 345 Amazon reviews the very day it's published.
Certainly Vonnegut himself is well aware of these vagaries of fame and influence.
But let me heartily proclaim the obvious--that we truly should declare Mr. V.'s birthday a new national holiday (strapping it firmly to the one, for some, it already is on 11/11); schoolchildren should compete in Vonnegut Declamation Contests, vying to repeat from memory the longest and most salient passages from his works; we should have Vonnegut Festivals, Seminars, Television sitcoms, toothpaste, bottled water--even a Vonnegut Party in national, state, and local elections, which might well take the place of the corrupt and anemic Democrats.Read more ›
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I bought this book attracted by its title, expecting that the author would delve deeper into the mindset of people who feel that they don't belong anywhere. The book is weak, shallow, boring to read, full of opinions and predjudice, a total waste of paper and thus deserve no more time in writing this review.
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