Great, accessible, big-brained Vonnegut

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	• Galapagos (Delta Fiction) Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 113 reviews view larger image
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Classic Vonnegut

Big brains are our problem! Given the mess the world is in today, Vonnegut's message is more on target than when he wrote the book. Excellent reading.

Ya know what? I liked this book

Vonnegut is awesome. I've only read this and Slaughter-House Five, but I'm very impressed. I liked this book a little less than Slaughter House...but it was still really interesting to me.

I liked the way that this book told you everything that was going to happen in the story right away. Maybe I've been entrigued by the way the book was written in both past and present. It jumps all over the place, but that's not bad...just unfamiliar. It was a good book.

I'd give it 4 1/2 stars.

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Great, accessible, big-brained Vonnegut

Here, Kurt Vonnegut takes the reader on an adventure a million years long, and even longer in the making. Though he doesn't say so, the tale he tells really starts when the humans took up the first tool and began to conquer the world. It ends, quite fittingly, on the crib of evolutionary theory, the Galápagos Islands. Vonnegut uses the book to take us to the edge of a global apocalypse and beyond. The future he imagines through his troop of unassuming cruise ship passengers is funny, scary, and not altogether impossible.
In this book, Vonnegut absorbs the reader first with his rambunctious writing style, carefully sugarcoating the fact that he is pointing the finger at us (you) for bringing the world where it is today. He is able to lead the reader through a series of unlikely events and stories by keeping his characters simple and his philosophizing straightforward. Whereas I often find myself lost in the mind-mazes in other Vonnegut books ("Breakfast of Champions" comes to mind), in "Galápagos" I was refreshed by the story's simplicity and unpretentious social commentary. I was able to laugh at how pitifully lost we humans sometimes seem and, by the end, I was ready to agree wholeheartedly with the central thesis of the book that all of the world's real issues have their root in one very complex organ: our oversized brains.
"Galápagos" is a must for any Vonnegut fan, nature lover, nature hater and, especially, for any human whose brain is just too big.

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My Big Brain . . .

You know what my big brain told me to do? It told me to read all the Vonnegut I could get my hands on, and my big brain finally got something right. More social commentary from the master of fiction with a message, Galapagos tells the story of the last band of humans and how they evolve, absent technology.

What's the cause of all human misery? An oversized brain, which brings up the book's tagline - My Big Brain Told Me To . . .

What would humans be like without this oversized brain? What would the earth be like without a species with an oversized brain? These are the questions Vonnegut explores in depth.

As usual, Vonnegut's narrator is a master satirist with a rambling tone who seems to be going in wrong directions, but ties all threads together brilliantly. In this book, the narrator is the son of Kilgore Trout, a frequently recurring character in Vonnegut novels.

I don't think it's the best Vonnegut novel which makes it merely fantastic.

- CV Rick

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