An evocative blend of compassion and cynicism. Vonnegut loves people. His compassion for humanity is evident in the character of Eliot Rosewater. Rosewater is heir to the Rosewater fortune and he spends it on helping anyone and everyone who calls him. Vonnegut hates a good many cultural institutions. In short, thoroughly arresting prose passages Vonnegut dismisses nearly all of the systems by which wealth is acquired and passed on in America. The passage about the “Money River” is the key passage of this nature. It’s painful to feel so helpless before the crushing weight of cultural tradition. But there is hope, because people, individual humans, still live and love and have sex and fall down and cry and stand up and carry on. If you have read Vonnegut, you know his message. This book is, perhaps, the most distilled version his message. Dresden and the Tralfamadorians are mentioned, some characters from other works get cameos and this is the first book in which Kilgore Trout appears. It’s the perfect place to start (or continue) your torrid love affair with Vonnegut’s original voice.
26 August 2010
A Review: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
4 / 5 Stars
An evocative blend of compassion and cynicism. Vonnegut loves people. His compassion for humanity is evident in the character of Eliot Rosewater. Rosewater is heir to the Rosewater fortune and he spends it on helping anyone and everyone who calls him. Vonnegut hates a good many cultural institutions. In short, thoroughly arresting prose passages Vonnegut dismisses nearly all of the systems by which wealth is acquired and passed on in America. The passage about the “Money River” is the key passage of this nature. It’s painful to feel so helpless before the crushing weight of cultural tradition. But there is hope, because people, individual humans, still live and love and have sex and fall down and cry and stand up and carry on. If you have read Vonnegut, you know his message. This book is, perhaps, the most distilled version his message. Dresden and the Tralfamadorians are mentioned, some characters from other works get cameos and this is the first book in which Kilgore Trout appears. It’s the perfect place to start (or continue) your torrid love affair with Vonnegut’s original voice.
An evocative blend of compassion and cynicism. Vonnegut loves people. His compassion for humanity is evident in the character of Eliot Rosewater. Rosewater is heir to the Rosewater fortune and he spends it on helping anyone and everyone who calls him. Vonnegut hates a good many cultural institutions. In short, thoroughly arresting prose passages Vonnegut dismisses nearly all of the systems by which wealth is acquired and passed on in America. The passage about the “Money River” is the key passage of this nature. It’s painful to feel so helpless before the crushing weight of cultural tradition. But there is hope, because people, individual humans, still live and love and have sex and fall down and cry and stand up and carry on. If you have read Vonnegut, you know his message. This book is, perhaps, the most distilled version his message. Dresden and the Tralfamadorians are mentioned, some characters from other works get cameos and this is the first book in which Kilgore Trout appears. It’s the perfect place to start (or continue) your torrid love affair with Vonnegut’s original voice.
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