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My #AAM choice for Kurt Vonnegut was a bit of a miss for me. Strange and quirky, it was a little too out there for me, the wild twists and turns kept taking me out of the story. I‘ve really enjoyed Breakfast of Champions when I read it years ago so this one might just not have been for me. #audio @Soubhiville

I really got into the story and characters in book 1 of this trilogy, so I raced right to book 2, and it disappointed me. The first third of this book is just fight after fight between our core group and various people, and fighting takes up a lot of the end, too. Very little is done to advance the story or characters. Really dull, and too long of a book for that! Now I don‘t know if I want to bother with book 3. 🤷🏼‍♀️

John/Jonah interviews the children of one of the fathers of the atomic bomb for a book he‘s writing. At the same time he describes his new religion, Bokononism, which began when he finds the last of the children on an island called San Lorenzo. Meanwhile, the children have “inherited” a substance from their deceased father, the use of which sets the stage for the finale of the book. It‘s a humorous book (think John Scalzi), but I can understand ⬇️

It's... okay, but some stuff that was meant to be funny was pretty meh, and I guess I felt kind of... “yes, and?“ about it. It wasn't that insightful, at least for someone with my particular academic background (both science and literature).

I think the author should stay in his lane and not foolishly declare that there will never be a pandemic with a high death toll just because COVID didn't kill that big a percentage of the population, or (contrary to actual fact) that the risk of disease decreases with globalisation (it increases).

My next audiobook for #authoramonth for September @Soubhiville

Not at all what I was expecting but it made me laugh, cringe, and think. It‘s due back at the library tomorrow so that motivated me to read it quickly, I‘m not sure if I would have stalled out midway through otherwise. Giving it a pick because the ending was worth it.

Just another blurry Kindle excerpt. Imagine public television surviving a pandemic style disaster. #publictelevision

“Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead."

62 years after this book is first published and I am in complete agreement.

Started Volume 2