Search advanced search
 
Books
Search:
x dismiss this message

Did you know you can edit this page?

Hocus Pocus
  • Rated 0 stars
Read Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1990) (edit title/settings)

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author) (edit contributors)

Share this book on:
see page history

Description edit see section history

There is this little college for learning-disabled rich kids in upstate New York, across a lake from an enormous prison run for profit by the Japanese who, along with other prosperous foreigners, have bought the United States of America.
There is a prison break!
The lake is frozen as... read more

Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit

Write a ridiculously simplified synopsis.

Popular Covers

Loading covers…

Choose your book’s cover

Quotes edit see section history

  • “Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.”
  • “Why argue somebody else out of the expectation of an Afterlife?”
  • “...the most important message of the crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.”
  • Popular Highlights from Kindle Customers
  • BEER, OF COURSE, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
    Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
  • So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren’t funny or scary, or couldn’t make you rich, the heck with them.
    Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
  • They had managed to convert their wealth, which had originally been in the form of factories or stores or other demanding enterprises, into a form so liquid and abstract, negotiable representations of money on paper, that there were few reminders coming from anywhere that they might be responsible for anyone outside their own circle of friends and relatives.
    Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
  • character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
    Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
  • “The difference is that we have the misfortune of knowing what’s really going on,” said Bergeron, “which is no fun at all. And this has given rise to a whole new class of preening, narcissistic quacks like yourself who say in the service of rich and shameless polluters that the state of the atmosphere and the water and the topsoil on which all life depends is as debatable as how many angels can dance on the fuzz of a tennis ball.”
    Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
  • profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
    Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
  • the most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
    Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
  • Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can’t stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.
    Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Show all 11 quotes from this book

First Sentence edit see section history

My name is Eugene Debs Hartke, and I was born in 1940.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: Add the language.
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 302

Classification edit see section history

We’re hiding the errata, movie connections, books that influenced this book, books influenced by this book, books that cite this book and books cited by this book sections. If you would like to add content to them, you must first make them visible.

John Lopez

You were just viewing this book on John Lopez’s shelf.

 

© 2006-2013 Shelfari | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy

Close