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Welcome to the Monkey House
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A varied and uneven collection of Vonnegut's short stories. Some read like Yankee Magazine or Saturday Evening Post stories: boy home from WW II gets girl stories, or Vonnegut's 'hometown' stories of Barnstable, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
Others, the better ones, play to Vonnegut's strengths, like the title work. These are science fiction with Big Themes like thought control, enforced birth control, a cemented-over world, weapons of mass destruction, and variations on Big Brother.
A 3.5, rounded up.
{Edited 6/5/23]
Others, the better ones, play to Vonnegut's strengths, like the title work. These are science fiction with Big Themes like thought control, enforced birth control, a cemented-over world, weapons of mass destruction, and variations on Big Brother.
A 3.5, rounded up.
{Edited 6/5/23]
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Reading Progress
December 11, 2012
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Started Reading
December 13, 2012
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Finished Reading
October 19, 2013
– Shelved
June 5, 2023
– Shelved as:
short-stories
June 5, 2023
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
June 5, 2023
– Shelved as:
american-authors
