[Read By Tony Roberts]
Busy, busy, busy.
Life. Altering.
This book has a small, but highly devoted cult, and I must confess that I am a solitary member of it. This book really floored me, particularly in the philosophy department. Some of the passages in the novel felt like Vonnegut was reaching out of the pages/audio book with both arms, grabbing me by the proverbial collar, and leaning up to shout at me, "Listen! I am explaining all of it to you! It is here!"
I can't possibly expect the average dude to have that kind of reaction to anything, because it is the result of a whim of fate and unlikely chance, but so many of the subtleties and unsubtleties about this book really got to me. I didn't just love it, it changed the way I thought about things at a very fundamental level.
Bokononism, the Gran Falun, the relationships of the characters, such as they were... I don't know what to say about it. It was sublimely tragic and true, and yet offered a glimpse of hope. There was one particular passage in it where Vonnegut talked about what a writer could hope to bring to the world through their writing that I found to be both simple and one of the deepest and most profound passages I have read in literature.
Roberts was solid, even excellent frequently, but the star of this show was one Kurt Vonnegut Jr. See the fucking dynamite picture of him, below. Higher recommendations I will rarely give.
See the cat? See the cradle?
