Galapagos (Delta Fiction)
 

Galapagos (Delta Fiction)

by Kurt Vonnegut

“Beautiful…provocative, arresting reading.”–USA Today

KURT VONNEGUT is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist”* with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has... (read more)

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Dave
  • Rated 4 stars

This tale is an accounting of the not so distant future which ushers in the demise of the human species as we now know it. It is a story that retells the lives of a handful of unlikely people, brought together by pure chance, as nations worldwide collapse and are unable to stabilize their societies from their apparent lack of common sense. Attracted by a luxury cruise to the Galapagos Islands, a collage of misfit and unprepared passengers are unknowingly the last group of human survivors...

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Sheryl S
  • Rated 2 stars

Although I didn’t ever get immersed in the story, I read through to the end. I kept thinking that it was going somewhere, and that my persistent “so what?” would be answered somehow. It wasn’t. I’ve never read Vonnegut so I’m not sure if I’m just not a Vonnegut fan, or if this just wasn’t one of his best works. I expected, from the back cover, that Vonnegut “looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry -- and all that is worth saving.” Vonnegut didn’t tell me anything –...

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  • Rated 3.931238 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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  • Rebel26

    rebel26 said:

    This book cracks me up, makes me think, and really entertains me. I just love it.

    posted Monday, August 6 2007
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