The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Author: Kurt VonnegutEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-09-08
ISBN: 0385333498
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Book Review: "The universe is a junk yard, with everything in it overpriced."
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first novel I've read from Kurt Vonnegut and I'm hooked! While not gung go about science fiction, I appreciate his writing style and the way he made the story come together in the end.
While Winston Niles Rumfoord told Malachi Constant, the fortunate (only) son, about his destiny on Mars (that he was to have a son, Chrono, with his wife, Beatrice Rumfoord, there), we await to see exactly how they got over their loathing of each other long enough to produce a child. So while we're following the adventures of "Unk," waiting to see where Malachi is going to come in, it's only three quarters of the way into the novel that we realize that they're one and the same person.
As the "family" of Malachi, Beatrice, and Chrono leaves Earth one last time for Titan, Winston does them the favor of explaining everything in full detail to them - in front of the crowd - about who they were on Earth before their memories were cleaned out on Mars. None of them could have cared less (much less Chrono) but Malachi (the Space Wanderer, whose appearance on Earth was cause for much celebration) and Beatrice vowed to never again be used by Rumfoord.
It was pretty cool to see, in the end, how Malachi wound up missing Beatrice after she died on Titan. The three of them wound up caring about each other in their own way (even if Chrono wound up being way closer to his mother than he ever was with his father, something that Malachi came to accept).
The only bad thing (if you can call it that) was that I was disappointed to not see Winston Niles Rumfoord really get his in the end. I think he completely got off the hook for sabotaging the Martian "invasion" of Earth, for engaging in erasing peoples' memories, and for just being a total jerk.
I'm sorry I didn't read this book sooner. Great piece of literature.
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