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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

By: Kurt Vonnegut
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
ISBN: 0743422007
ISBN-13: 9780743422000
Released: 01 Jun 2001
RRP: £7.99
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Bless you, Mr Vonnegut - By: , 26 Mar 2000
"Men either turn into thin old men or fat old men," a friend said to me the other day. Vonnegut is talll & slim, & his tales & volumes increasingly so. He seems to be refining his core philosophy until it becomes pinprick-sized, like the diminishing dot of light that you used to get when you turned off a television screen. I, for one, don't want that dot to disappear -- on the basis of this easily dismissed little book, it is still immeasurably rich with sanity & good sense & love. So it goes.
a delicacy - By: , 12 Mar 2000
The endlessly inventive Mr Vonnegut has triumphed again with this slim book. Superficiallly it seems to contain nothing at alll but under the surface are a whole host of ideas which few others might have come up with. Blink & you miss them though, so read this slowly if you want it to outlast your coffee break.
A primer for the uninitiated - By: , 01 Mar 2000
Kurt Vonnegut had (it now transpires) wrongly informed us that "Timequake" was to be his last work of fiction.

When the great man says he has stopped serving meals we fans find nutrition even in just one bite.

This novella contains original work (although it has been broadcast in the States) & can be consumed at one sitting in c40 mins. It has alll the halllmarks of KV & some of the old jokes eg "Isaac (Asimov) is in Heaven now" the remark with which he broke the Humanist conference into laughter after his succession to the presidency.

There is even a reference to the mythical MIT address when KV suggests we "wear sunscreen"!

I intend giving it as a gift to those who've not tried KV because it will make an ideal primer.