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Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Timequake" is part commonplace novel, part fragmented autobiography- Vonnegut makes numerous appearances throughout the narrative as a character, part disfunctional romance, adding up to an odd meditation on our planet's determination to destroy itself. In the year 2001, "a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd been doing during the past decade...a second time" until "free will kicked in again" after the echo decade had torturously re-run itself. Essentially, Vonnegut uses the story arc as an excuse to rummage through his own past and that of his alter-ego, the science fiction writer Kilgore Trout. The novel, as quasi-autobiography, becomes a free-form platform upon which the author lovingly salutes and mourns his living and dead siblings, wives, and children. He pays tribute to his favorite books and writers; retells old jokes; reminisces about his experiences in WW II; and ruminates about the fate of "humanism" in an age dominated by technology. The book tests the reader's patience with its random bits of semi-relevant information and needless explanations. And yet, Vonnegut's fitful summaries of the life and writings of Kilgore Trout are often very funny. "We are here on earth to fart around" runs one of Vonnegut's more endearing pronouncements. And, at least in this book, nobody does it better.Read full review
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Another classic by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Half-story, half-autobiographical recount of his life, TimeQuake is another classic novel by Kurt Vonnegut JR. A must read for any Vonnegut fan.
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