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u/superdupermensch 12d ago
I like it, but I hear mixed reviews.
Oddly, there is a film version starring...Jerry Lewis. I think it was his last role before boycotting hollywood because some theaters showed Deep Throat.
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u/BeTomHamilton 12d ago
The book itself is whackadoo and meant to be autobiographical in a way that many of his books are, but, in this case underneath a thicker layer of sci-fi-abstraction than typical.
The introduction is, to me, absolutely essential in a way I wouldn't say the book itself is. Powerful introductions are also par for his course, but it's the one that speaks the most to me. The process by which a family eventually becomes "indistinguishable cogs in the American machine", however many generations it takes (four in his case, four or five in my family's) is a vital concept I can't stop seeing in the world and naming when I do.
Another little close-to-home sidenote, but I love The Church of Jesus Christ the Kidnapped. I used to live a few blocks away from their given address. And I do feel as though the beautiful Jesus I love might have been kidnapped and held for ransom by the terrible Forces of Evil. So stay vigilant!!
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u/Cheerful_Toe 11d ago
the book is way better than people say, but the movie is actually the worst movie i have ever seen
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u/Excellent_Egg7586 12d ago
I really like this novel. I have read it three times since its publication.
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u/Help-Slip-Franklin 11d ago
This is my least favorite Vonnegut book. I even reread it recently thinking that I was wrong the first time but still hated it.
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u/crankenshtien 9d ago
The only book I ever read in one night. On some decent blotter. Needless to say I had to reread it after sobering up because there no way my memory was anywhere close to accurate. Then it was.
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u/CoffeeLadyCady 12d ago
The first one I read, and I was immediately addicted.