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Average rating3.5
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this work is a window not only into Vonnegut' s mind...but also into his heart. " A great cosmic comedian and a rattler of human skeletons, an idealist disguised as a pessimist... has written a book filled with madness and truth and absurdity and self-revelation." -- " St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" He is our strongest writer... the most stubbornly imaginative." -- John Irving" "*" The New York Times"
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The column on the 1972 Republican convention was eerie. It could have been written yesterday: the grandstanding, the hypocrisy, the jesus, the warmongering, the contempt for anyone with insufficient golf club memberships. Even the peaceful protesters and the police intimidation thereof. Forty years. The names have changed. Nothing else has.
On the whole, not a good book: inconsistent, often dated, occasionally incoherent. But the good stuff—his essay on Biafra, the abovementioned column, the Playboy interview—the good stuff is Very Good.
Vonnegut on life, the future and Indy—He may be a pessimist, but I love him!