Galapagos
Ratings4
Average rating3.5
15
Filter by rating-
The usual Vonnegut fun, enjoyable satiric story which jumps back and forth in time and space and entertains and amuses. Unfortunately, it runs out of steam and peters out rather precipitously. Not in his first rank, but worth the time.
I found this book pretty tedious to read and unnecessarily repetitive in its message about humans our big brains. You'll get what he's saying in the first 3 chapters, but he makes the same point about 2 dozen times over the book. Still give it 4 stars because Vonnegut's prose is stellar, and the webs of stories and the motif of genealogy/evolution are masterful. Simple sentences in the story brought me to tears. That's vonnegut I guess.