pick#bookspin Really interesting reading this book from the 1950s during the age of AI and the rise of the machine. Frighteningly plausible.
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pick#bookspin Really interesting reading this book from the 1950s during the age of AI and the rise of the machine. Frighteningly plausible.
so-soThis is both the first novel Kurt Vonnegut wrote and the first of his I have read. It is a dark, satirical story of a dystopian world where man created what replaced him. I really enjoyed the sarcastic, ironic, witty humor. It was not my favorite story ever, but I am excited to read more of his work.
"This isn't the end, you know," he said. "Nothing ever is, nothing ever will be - not even Judgment Day."
“But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a #golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite summing up—for comparison with others scores—after each hole.” #QuotsyApr20
Happy Birthday to the great Kurt Vonnegut, who I had the great pleasure to see in 1994 in a small high school auditorium in a Chicago suburb. I'll never forget that. Greatly missed by his fans. One of the all-time great American writers!
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️ It‘s funny that the one Vonnegut novel I had yet to read was the one he published first. In this satirical take on his time at General Electric, we are dropped into a post World War III mechanized dystopia. Automation has taken over menial jobs rendering some folks to perceive themselves as useless. A fight to take the world back from the machines ensues. As with many Vonnegut novels, this holds even more societal relevance today.
Just started this one by Vonnegut. Really enjoying his stuff lately and slowly working my way through his works.
pickVonnegut had an uncanny way of seeing how the cultural climate at the time of his writing would still be relevant farther down line of history.
In this one machines have replaced the majority of jobs across the country. The consequences and repercussions of what that does to the people is what the story centers around.
Worth the read or listen.
I‘ve been #audiocleaning this morning. Sadly it‘s time to put away the pumpkins and leaves 🍁 🍂 . I got a little craft happy this fall and don‘t have enough room in my bins 😬 guess I have to get another one.
Time for some #audioshopping
The only thing that makes grocery shopping worth it.
Book: Player Piano
Author: Proulx, Annie
Movie: Princess Bride, The
TV Show: Parks & Rec
Food: Pasta
#manicmonday #letterP @JoScho
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Purse packed for the Nutcracker: tickets ✅ book I can't read because I'm at the ballet ✅
Today's author spotlight: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.! Born in Indianapolis, he died in Manhattan in 2007 at 84. He was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and survived Dresden's allied bombing by taking refuge inside a slaughterhouse meat locker. He adopted his sister's 3 sons (to add to his 3 children) when she died of cancer 2 days after her husband died in a train accident. His first 5 novels achieved nominal success. #AuthorPotpourri #TheMoreYouKnow
• it's the perfect day for an espresso milkshake and to drown in Vonnegut's first novel. 😎
#AprilBookShowers #ArtificialIntelligence
I'm posting a lot of #Vonnegut lately. This is his first novel, and addresses how various machines overtake human expertise... and eventually all of humanity. Scary and the beginnings of Vonnegut's signature humor appear.
bailedYes.. I bailed... Despite the fluid writing, I couldn't enter the story, and I had no interest in the characters. When reading a book is not a pleasure, it's better to stop!
I've decided to read all of Vonnegut novels in order. The first one, written in 1952, is Player Piano, also known as Utopia 14.
The tape was the essence distilled from the small polite man with the big hands and black fingernails. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"He knew with all his heart that the human situation was a frightful botch, but it was such a logical, intelligently arrived-at botch that he couldn't see how history could have possibly have led anywhere else." -Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
Vonnegut's satirical commentary is my favorite #politicalfiction #photoadaynov16. I'm both glad he didn't have to live through this election and sad I don't get to hear his surely subtle, indirect criticism of it.
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
Greetings from the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis! If you're ever in the area, I highly recommend a visit. A fantastic collection of artifacts, memorabilia, books, and artwork. A shrine to one of my favorite authors.
Fun Friday Photo: Give me dystopias and post-apocalypse stories all day! Sadly I couldn't track down 1984 or my all-time Stephen King favourite The Stand to join the party though...
