Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Author: Kurt VonnegutEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-12
ISBN: 0385333870
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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- ISBN13: 9780385333870
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Book Review: "middle of the menu" Vonnegut
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, I'm a big fan of Vonnegut's, especially his earlier stuff, but by the time this one came out I was no longer devouring his new works immediately upon publication. I recently took a wonderful trip to the Galapagos Islands, though, and a friend told me this book was a must-read.
The main theme of Galapagos is that humans evolving a big brain did not turn out to be such a good evolutionary strategy. Clever (and dark) enough, but only marginally sufficient to sustain a full-length book.
Oh, it reads very easily, and it's undeniably Vonnegut, so I didn't have a bad time reading it, certainly. But, Sirens of Titan it ain't.
This is for the confirmed Vonnegut fan who's probably going to wind up reading pretty much all of his stuff eventually anyway. For most everybody else, there's probably a dozen better choices to read first.
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