Ship of Fools (Audiobook)

from steller0707

The German ship, called the Vera, is making a trip from Veracruz, Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany, carrying first class passengers of various citizenship and an "underclass" of prisoners, revolutionaries and the poor. Katherine Anne Porter modeled the novel after her observations on an ocean trip ...

from dbsovereign

Porter's idea of the ocean of life (instead of Twain's life as a river for example) and how wretchedly petty and selfish we have become - we float along at our own peril...

from plenilune

In Ship of Fools Porter created and managed dozens of detailed, utterly flawed characters engaged in the tedious everyday minutiae of lives in suspension. This is a nuanced portrait of a time and its people, largely ignorant of the future into which they are cornering themselves. There is as much...

from Schmerguls

1120 Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter (read 17 Jul 1971) I spent over a month reading this, and have been bored thoroughly by it. Why I didn't just quit reading it is beyond me. It is a story of a trip by a German passenger ship from Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany, in 1931. Porter writes e...

from figre

A bunch of horrible people take a transatlantic voyage from Mexico to Germany, treat each other horribly, and end the voyage nearly as horrible as when they first arrived. Okay, if you haven't figured it out from my synopsis, I did not like this book. I suppose I understand why it is so revered. ...