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| Title | : | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian |
| Author | : | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 80 pages |
| Published | : | May 22nd 2001 by Washington Square Press (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Short Stories. Classics. Science Fiction |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Paperback | Pages: 80 pages Rating: 3.84 | 14447 Users | 729 Reviews
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From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and with socialist and labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, one of Vonnegut's personal heroes. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to a final entry from Kilgore Trout, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian remains a joy.
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| Original Title: | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian |
| ISBN: | 0743422007 (ISBN13: 9780743422000) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Kilgore Trout, Isaac Asimov, Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, St. Peter, Isaac Newton, John Brown, William Blake, James Earl Ray, Jack Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 14447 Users | 729 ReviewsAssessment About Books God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
I think, for once, the brevity of this book does the subject matter a disservice. The short pieces were originally presented as 90-second interludes on WNYC, Manhattan's public radio station through the material has been reworked prior to publication. It is easy, tempting even, to race through this book, and enjoy the fun part of it (guilty as charged), and it is funny throughout, and not get the message; he can be quite subtle. Vonnegut presents these short pieces as if they were factualHilarious book. What started as complete irreverence for the hereafter actually became an appreciation of life in the now. Originally a collection of radio shorts for WNYC, the book chronicles the author's trip down the long blue tunnel to visit the Pearly Gates and interview a cast of souls both famous and ordinary. Dr. Kevorkian assists each time to send him 3/4 dead and then to bring him back...well, until Kevorkian gets nabbed for 1st degree murder charges and dragged back to his home state
I'm on the fence about a lot of Vonnegut's work. Because on the one hand, I read Slaughterhouse 5 as a literature illiterate in Junior year of High School (it wasn't until after High School that I became a real fan of reading). So there's a lot to love about Vonnegut on a purely nostalgic basis, or at least on the basis that he is who introduced me to literature in the first place. It was he that warmed me up to the great works that were to come, and of all the books that I claim to love now. I
He's up in Heaven now.
He's up in Heaven now.
vonnegut must have written this later in life......what is a humanist? a humanist is a schmitt-heel who makes fun of the beliefs of others, at their expense, and offers nothing in exchange...as cervantes wrote...friend to friend no more draws near and the jester's cane has become a spear.read this one on my amazon kindle, second book i've read on it, both today...got to wondering...are all the pages here? how would i know? can't fan through them and sniff the cover...or is that against the law
Added 2/8/14._God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian_ (79-page book) by Kurt Vonnegut (first published in 1999) 3/5/16 - I have finally gotten around to reading this very short book in which Kurt Vonnegut imagines himself as a reporter interviewing famous dead people. I must say that the satire and irony is delicious! You have to read the book to get the real sense of it. No amount of explanation can deliver the real effect of it.Each interview is a very short vignette, making the reading of the book very
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