Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More!
 

Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More!

by Kurt Vonnegut

Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, centenarian, the last President of the United States, King of Manhattan, and one-half (along with his sister, Eliza) of the most powerful intelligence since Einstein, is penning his autobiography. He occupies the first floor of a ruined Empire State Building and lives like a royal scavenger with his illiterate granddaughter and her beau. Buffeted by... (read more)

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HemingwayHeroine
  • Rated 4 stars

As always, delightfully Vonnegut. It wasn't the best of all his novels that I've read, but it was good. Still uses hilarious anecdotes to bring the reader to startling truths about society. The beginning of the book is a short autobiography of the author, in which he explains that this is the last book he is writing while using his deceased sister as a muse. Her memory (or the feeling of guidance he has from her memory) is ever fading and he hopes to channel that in this book. The beginning...

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Peach
  • Rated 2 stars

Although this book seems nowhere near as good as Slaughterhouse-Five to me, Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More! bears a shadowy resemblance to that work. While Billy Pilgrim learned “So It Goes,” the narrator of this book can’t seem to stop saying “Hi Ho.”

The main storyline concerns the last President of the United States, Wilber Swain, a doctor, a member of the artificial Daffodil family, a monstrosity, and half of a genius. The other half of that genius was his intuitive...

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