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Title: Timequake by Lawrence Pressman, Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut ISBN: 1-55927-461-1 Publisher: Audio Renaissance Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (167 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gutsy and Different: One of my favorite Vonnegut titles
Comment: Timequake is... different. You won't find another story out there that is constructed like this one. Why do I give it 5 stars? Because that takes guts, but mostly because vonnegut pulls it off. It's a very difficult thing to change the underlying form of storytelling... most readers don't like it. They get caught up in the presentation of the story and forget to pay attention to what's happening.
Well, Timequake is non-linear and wild. It is chaotic, but not in the sense of being poorly written. It's chaotic in the same way that a handful of diamonds thrown into a salad mixer would be chaotic; fascinating, somewhat worrisome, and in an odd way brilliant.
I would recommend Timequake to Vonnegut fans, certainly, but also to any serious reader or writer of fiction. Use it as a lesson in thinking outside of the norm. There's a lot to be learned from Timequake.
Rating: 2
Summary: Declining powers
Comment: Timequake is not one of Kurt Vonnegut's better books.
For serious fans of Mr. Vonnegut's work, the book's publication in 1997 felt like discovering a bit more of a great meal left in the kitchen after you thought it was all gone, a final taste of something wonderful. But upon a recent re-reading Timequake, I have realized that, objectively speaking, this is the product of a great writer in possession of declining powers, a volume that is predictable while puzzlingly swinging between memoir and fiction.
On the surface, the storyline is classic Vonnegut: there's a "time quake" that means that everyone in the world is forced to relive every second of every day between 1991 and 2001, but they are unable to change a moment of that unfortunate decade. Of course, he introduces himself and his alter ego Kilgore Trout into the story, and unusual situations abound.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, but it doesn't come off nearly as cleanly as similarly unusual storylines in Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and The Sirens of Titan do. In the end, when Timequake doesn't feel forced -- not a word I would use for any of Mr. Vonnegut's other novels -- it feels like the author is simply going through the motions.
There are bits and pieces of the story that revive the nostalgia that readers of Mr. Vonnegut's better books may be looking for. But for the uninitiated, there are better places to start.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not so Hot
Comment: It has been my experience that when you are reading Vonnegut lit, you have either picked up a hit or a miss. In the case ofr Timequake, you've picked up one of his misses, I am a true fan of this zany author, but this time his self "heoroizing" and annoying jargon got to my last nerve. I finished the book for the purpose of not wanting to finish it later, but it wasn't the best time i ever spent. All reading is good reading and this had it laughs and abstrack story lines, but all in all it was the worste book of Vonnegut's I've read. For the record i have read nearly ten, so i have so opinion on this.
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Title: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 0385334206 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 11 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 038533351X Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 0385333498 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 0425130215 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ISBN: 038533348X Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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