Rozanna Lilley's Reviews > Welcome to the Monkey House
Welcome to the Monkey House
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I'm finished with this book but I can't finish it. I read to the end of the short story that gives this collection its title. It featured women who had been numbed from the waist down who were rescued by a freethinking man from a totalitarian dystopia. They are all grateful (in retrospect) to be raped by him. I can't waste any more of my life on loudly declaimed misogyny, either in a sci-fi future or a beatnik past.
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Nov 03, 2024 12:47PM
I just had the same experience! I have enjoyed several of Vonnegut’s books in the past. But I put this one down after that short story and couldn’t bring myself to return to it. I always try to understand the artfulness and deeper meaning of books, but I could not see how this story could have a deeper meaning that redeems it.
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