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Mark Twain, not long before he died a bitter old man, was writing a book much like John Latham's.... Like Latham, he chose to laugh in agony rather than sob in agony about how irresistible forces, whether physical or economic or biological or political or social or military or historical or technological can at any time smash our hopes for moderately happy and healthy lives for ourselves and our loved ones to smithereens.

We like to pretend that so many important discoveries have been made on a certain day, unexpectedly, by one person rather than by a system seeking such knowledge, I think, because we hope that life is like a lottery, where simply anyone can come up with a winning ticket...

Who knows? Tomorrow morning, some absolute nobody, maybe you or I, might fall into an open manhole, and return to street level with a concussion and a cancer cure.

A rather odd collection of previously unpublished stories that will probably be most appreciated by fans. My favorite part of it was an essay about American myths and decline, which is even more painfully relevant than it was in the 90s.

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

A collection of short stories, this is a Vonnegut selection that I enjoyed more than most of his other works. They were well written, clever, and ironic without heavy-handed bizarreness

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

I read this Sept 7 & gave it 4 ⭐️. It‘s a decent collection of six short stories, one essay and one incomplete short story. Vonnegut could write and each piece makes you think.

@JoScho you so much!! This one of the few Vonneguts I‘ve not read yet. 💚💚💚

#kindlitsy

So anybody remember the "this is movie phone" voice? I swear the same guy narrated this.
I love Vonnegut so of course the stories and essay were fantastic and classic Vonnegut style. Nothing bad I can say about that. Nothing more I can say either. The narrator was awful. I was expecting "hello this is movie phone" at any moment. For story ????for narration ??, so read it instead.

Now a bit of palette cleansing Vonnegut.

Can't go wrong with Vonnegut