Welcome To The Monkey House

from beautyredefined

So...I don't think I'm exactly the right type of person for short stories. I'm probably too impatient to keep reading to really sit back and absorb each story for what it is, and to really digest what Vonnegut was trying to say in each story. I'm the same way with poetry. Anyway, my reading habit...

from beautyredefined

So...I don't think I'm exactly the right type of person for short stories. I'm probably too impatient to keep reading to really sit back and absorb each story for what it is, and to really digest what Vonnegut was trying to say in each story. I'm the same way with poetry. Anyway, my reading habit...

from grandpahobo

For the most part, this collection of short stories are quite entertaining. The fact that they are science fiction stories written in the 50s and don't sound silly is quite remarkable.

from Hagelstein

A collection of Vonnegut's short stories published in the 1950s and 60s. All are excellent, most masterful. What's striking about many is the basically optimistic post-war view. in "Adam" Holocaust survivors have a life affirming baby - to be named after one of the many family members that didn't...

from jonwwil

My road to Vonnegut has been a long one. I read Slaughterhouse-Five for a Contemporary Fiction class in college and enjoyed it very much, and I always intended to explore his other works at some point. Unfortunately, that didn't happen until a publication I subscribe to arrived in my mailbox cont...