If This Isn't Nice, What Is? : Advice to the Young: The Graduation Speeches

from CarrieWuj

Where was Kurt Vonnegut at my college graduation?! We had George Bush, Sr. In this collection of Vonnegut's commencement addresses, common themes repeat: our need for community, the need to be kind, the empty promises of money and culturally defined success, and the importance of recognizing the ...

from BenKline

A wonderful short collection of graduation speeches Vonnegut gave between the years of 1996 and 2004 (3 years before his death). Fun, advice filled, with his themes on love, patience, doing the right thing, common decency, and being kind to everyone, Vonnegut's speeches are as poignant now to us ...

from HelenGress

Vonnegut was a masterful writer- able to satirize and enlighten. I read his books eagerly as a teen and young adult. This volume- a collection of his grad speeches- offers insight into the man himself. The preface is too long- many of his best tidbits are given away in it and his speeches do have...

from mhanlon

This is a great little collection of Vonnegut's speeches, and the audiobook is well read -- the reader hasn't got the gravel of Vonnegut's voice, but it also removes some of the alarm you might have felt if the ghost of Kurt Vonnegut were actually reading it. Like watching a good stand-up comic's...

from campingmomma

This book was somewhat amusing. The author says "when a husband and wife fight, it may seem to be about money or sex or power. But what they're really yelling at each other about is loneliness. What they're really saying is, "You're not enough people. ...tell them to become more people for each o...