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Kurt Vonnegut had an extremely productive career, penning everything from plays to short stories to full-length nonfiction. Drawing on his experiences of war, life, and love, Vonnegut’s powerful messages were delivered so creatively—and often quite satirically—ensuring that they stood the test of time. This assortment of Kurt Vonnegut quotes is just a glimpse of the gems found throughout the works of this great author.
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Compelling Story, Ridiculous Narrator
- De DianeReads en 02-28-16
De: Jonathan Franzen
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The Night Ocean
- De: Paul La Farge
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Marina Willett, MD, has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears.
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Frustratingly Uneven Due to Clumsy Plot Structure
- De Adam en 06-15-17
De: Paul La Farge
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- De: Jean Kerr
- Narrado por: Marni Webb
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
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This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr's parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the 21st century.
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Poor narration of smart, dry, funny essays
- De Buyseverythingonline en 04-30-16
De: Jean Kerr
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House. The longest of the memoirs, The Imaginary Girlfriend,” is the core of this collection.
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Unabridged?
- De K. Stiffler en 02-11-22
De: John Irving
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Sunny's Nights
- Lost and Found at the Bar at the End of the World
- De: Tim Sultan
- Narrado por: Robert Malloch
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest bar in the world—and the mercurial, magnificent man behind it. The first time he saw Sunny’s Bar, in 1995, Tim Sultan was lost, thirsty for a drink, and intrigued by the single bar sign among the forlorn warehouses lining the Brooklyn waterfront.
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Visiting an Era
- De Carolyn en 03-01-16
De: Tim Sultan
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Andy Rooney
- 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
- De: Andy Rooney
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analyst. Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit brings together the best of more than a half-century of work (including long-out-of-print pieces from his early years) in an unforgettable celebration of one of America’s funniest men. Like Mark Twain, Finley Peter Dunne (Mister Dooley) and Will Rogers, Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America, a writer for the ages.
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A good style
- De Denise L. Holtz en 11-04-16
De: Andy Rooney
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
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Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams
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Mislaid
- A Novel
- De: Nell Zink
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start - she's a lesbian, he's gay - but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.
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Misbegotten, mishandled, misfired novel
- De Julie W. Capell en 02-07-16
De: Nell Zink
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Gary Sinise
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
- De C. Wilson en 01-11-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The World's Largest Man
- A Memoir
- De: Harrison Scott Key
- Narrado por: Harrison Scott Key
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life father - a hunter, a fighter, and a football coach. Harrison, with his love of books and excessive interest in hugging, couldn't have been less like Pop, and when it became clear that he was not able to kill anything very well or otherwise make his father happy, he resolved to become everything his father was not.
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I laughed every day to and from work. Loved it!
- De KufRN en 06-06-18
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Driving on the Rim
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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Delightful
- De Roy en 01-05-11
De: Thomas McGuane
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Cat's Cradle
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Tony Roberts
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
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KV at his best.
- De Robert en 06-22-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Player Piano
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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A Genuine 5-Stars
- De R.A. en 06-07-19
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Mother Night
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Kurt Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of grey with a verdict that will haunt us all. Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense.
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“We are what we pretend to be”
- De Robert en 09-04-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Deadeye Dick
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb - Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.
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If I aimed at nothing..nothing is what I would hit
- De Darwin8u en 11-28-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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The Sirens of Titan
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation....
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Absolutely Outstanding
- De Robert en 01-07-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Cat's Cradle
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Tony Roberts
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
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KV at his best.
- De Robert en 06-22-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Player Piano
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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A Genuine 5-Stars
- De R.A. en 06-07-19
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Mother Night
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Kurt Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of grey with a verdict that will haunt us all. Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense.
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“We are what we pretend to be”
- De Robert en 09-04-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Deadeye Dick
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb - Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.
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If I aimed at nothing..nothing is what I would hit
- De Darwin8u en 11-28-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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The Sirens of Titan
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation....
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Absolutely Outstanding
- De Robert en 01-07-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Jailbird
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend.
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a fool and his self respect are soon parted
- De Darwin8u en 11-18-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature, with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Kurt Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth.
- De Darwin8u en 03-27-14
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Bluebeard
- The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.
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Kurt Vonnegut explores the arts
- De Darwin8u en 12-28-17
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Hocus Pocus
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
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Vonnegut Imitating Vonnegut
- De Joe Kraus en 08-06-18
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Galapagos
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Galapagos takes the listener back one million years to AD 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, totally different human race. Kurt Vonnegut, America's master satirist, looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry - and all that is worth saving.
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The survival of the human race is a total bore!
- De Darwin8u en 12-13-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Palm Sunday
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.
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Incredible
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-20
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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A Man Without a Country
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
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One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general. No matter the subject, Vonnegut will have you considering perspectives you may never have regarded. On the creative process: "If you want to really hurt your parents...the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding."
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Good but uneven collection of essays
- De J. S. Koehler en 01-28-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Slapstick
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut's novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut's relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book's publication.
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Lonely No More!
- De Darwin8u en 11-16-16
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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We Are What We Pretend to Be
- The First and Last Works
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Colin Hanks, Oliver Wyman, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.
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- De Robert en 11-02-12
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Timequake
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Arthur Bishop
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
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According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade.
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Arias only make hopeless situations worse
- De Darwin8u en 12-28-17
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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With cutting wit, fierce conviction, and surprising empathy, Vonnegut explores a diverse range of topics including society, politics, sex, literature, and mortality. Fans who believe they've read all of Vonnegut's work will be delighted to find the author speaking frankly about timely and relevant new topics - with an amusing yet insightful style that's instantly recognizable.
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Vonnegut At His Best
- De Peter W. Kalnin en 12-09-23
De: Kurt Vonnegut
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Breakfast of Champions
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- Boston Boy
- 02-03-16
This is incredible
What did you love best about Breakfast of Champions?
This is classic, laugh-out-loud/bemoan-humanity's-fate Vonnegut, and the reading is fantastic. Don't let anyone tell you differently. If you love Vonnegut, this is a must-have audio book. And to think I almost didn't purchase it based on some of the negative comments here - cheech. How can spending time with Kilgore Trout not be amazing? “The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her."Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me."The big show is inside my head," I said.”
Who was your favorite character and why?
Trout
Have you listened to any of John Malkovich’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, but I love his reading of this book
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Both
Any additional comments?
And so it goes
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- Ericka
- 03-02-16
5 stars for Malcovich
This is a good, fun read. Don't expect it to be on the same level as Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five and you will still enjoy it a lot. Also, there's images throughout the book that the reader misses out on; Malcovich does a good job of describing them and keeping it going. In fact, if it was anyone other than him I'd probably recommend skipping the audiobook and sticking with physical copy but he does such an awesome job. An enjoyable 6.5 hours.
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- Richard
- 02-28-16
WEIRD
Glad to be done with the story.
Vonnegut certainly has a vivid and sick imagination. He must have forgotten to take his meds on the days he wrote this book.
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- Nedieh Red Nav
- 12-10-18
As Kurt loses his mind
This is great Kurt Vonnegut as always besides the stereotypical racial profiling.
Absolutely crazy and amazing at the same time.
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- Glenn Gomes
- 09-26-16
Malkovich is great
Need to be familiar with Vonnegut's prior works to appreciate .John Malkovich is the perfect voice for this dark comedy
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-05-21
Beware old racist ideas!
John Malcovich as the narrator was quite appropriate. The metacognition and spurts of stream of consciousness writing amalgamated into a wonderful cacophony of blissful surrealism. There was talk of black people using the "N" word featured prominently and unapologetically. The references to women and Asian people was shocking. The story was captivating.
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- mike b
- 06-29-19
John Malkovich hates everyone
great story but John Malkovich doesn't seem to enjoy reading it. he has a really aggravated tone of voice and every time he describes an illustration he sounds like he wants to die.
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- Brendan
- 12-29-19
Not best Vonnegut, not great performance
I like Vonnegut but found this book a little lacklustre and lacked the crafted genius of his other books. I didn’t enjoy John Malkovich’s performance, for the most part. Felt like he was reading it for the first time. Happy I listened, as I’ve wanted to read this for a while, but wasn’t one of the better audiobooks I’ve listened to.
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- Gabriel Martinez
- 08-07-21
Deadpan Cynicism
Cynicism has become something of a bad word. The Greek philosophical practice was to discard customs and social norms in effort to achieve mental clarity. "Free from smoke" smoke being conceit, self deception, fear etc.
The story explores ideas deemed great and insignificant with no discrimination. Malchovich narrates in such a way as to state every thing as matter of fact. No event or detail is given greater importance than the other, and this is in keeping with the philosophy of the novel.
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- Josh (Xaminmo) Davis
- 10-26-19
A painful reflection on the diseased minds of humans
A reflection on the atrocities of America, especially of racism, and the casual happenings of mental illness, and disregard for others. Some parts can be kind of brutal.
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