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Summary: A Rip Off
Review: Im a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut but this is still a con. There are only about 70 pages. What with big gaps and margins the actual word count is very low. It should have been added as an extra to one of his other collections.
The pieces are very slight and uninteresting, resulting in a very disappointing 15 minute read
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Summary: HERE WE GO
Review: LIVE! DIRECT from heaven, hell or where ever are Kurt's exclusive one of a kind interviews with thirty of humanity's finest and not so finest spirits. With the aide of Jack the K, Kurt was able to visit the otherside and get these exclusive tidbits of reflections from the now deceased. You will laugh and be glad you are alive when you read their words of wisdom. The only problem with these interviews is that Kurt interviews only dead old people. He also leaves out dead athletes, musicians, religious freaks and other oddballs so characteristic of vintage Vonnegut. Oh well, when you get his age and have near death experiences I guess the only people you can catch are the older ones. Even in death the younger ones are busy running around. This book is a light enjoyable read of Vonnegut in his reflective years.
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Summary: Guise for his opinions
Review: No new ground is broken in this book. I don't know if you can justify spending [price] on it, it's VERY short. I read the whole thing in under 30 minutes. Just go read it in a local bookstore if you're really curious.
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Summary: Vonnegut-lite: a good diversion.
Review: Nobody but a walking platitude would confuse this for a masterpiece but, still, Vonnegut has that special ability to make anything upon anything seem worthy of respect. "GBYDK" is by no means an important piece of work; I suspect it worked well as it was intended: on the radio at a set interval. Reading the short collection of radio monologs doesn't work to any particular effect other than good humor and well-intentioned mirth. As it was intended, to be sure. Vonnegut tends to see himself as a type of moral compass and, because he may deserve to view himself in this light, the mock interviews contained within "GBYDK" are products of self-importance. Entertaining arrogance, however.
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Summary: Vintage Vonnegut
Review: Old Kurt has done it again...Further pushing back the walls of reality to make room for his outlandish yet all too believable fiction. In "God Bless You, Dr Kevorkian" Vonnegut presents written transcripts from the post-mortem interviews he's conducted with dead celebrities(both well known and obscure) through controlled near death experiences courtesy of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. It is through these fictional interviews that Vonnegut gives his take on life, death, and the human experience and ends up at his familiar refrain: Life may be meaningless--but at least it's beautiful. This is vintage Vonnegut--A gospel of the laughable irony of human existence. This book was a joy to read.
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Summary: Vintage Vonnegut
Review: Old Kurt has done it again...Further pushing back the walls of reality to make room for his outlandish yet all too believable fiction. In "God Bless You, Dr Kevorkian" Vonnegut presents written transcripts from the post-mortem interviews he's conducted with dead celebrities(both well known and obscure) through controlled near death experiences courtesy of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. It is through these fictional interviews that Vonnegut gives his take on life, death, and the human experience and ends up at his familiar refrain: Life may be meaningless--but at least it's beautiful. This is vintage Vonnegut--A gospel of the laughable irony of human existence. This book was a joy to read.
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Summary: Kurt, Kurt............Signing off
Review: Only Vonnegut can bring a new and totally different outlook on death. This is a charming small book with some great interviews as Mr vonnegut puts it. I found his conversion with Shakespare funny, as well as his talk with Hitler. (...)
It is a very different book, one I am sure you will enjoy and get a chuckle..
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Summary: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Review: Several years ago, Kurt Vonnegut gave a series of radio broadcast talks, each 5 minutes long, where he "reported" fictional conversations with people in heaven. This book collects the transcripts of this radio series. Vonnegut teams up with Dr. Kevorkian to bring about a series of "near death experiences". At the end of the dark tunnel, Vonnegut knocks at the gates of heaven where he asks St. Peter to bring out someone for Vonnegut to interview. Sometimes St. Peter brings out a notable or celebrated person, like William Shakespeare; sometimes he brings out someone more ordinary, like the man who suffered a fatal heart attack while trying to save his pet dog's life. Each transcript is a short philosophical essay which causes the reader to think hard about life. For a book that can be read in an hour's time, it goes a long way.
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Summary: Glad to be alive
Review: Thank you Mr. Vonnegut for doing what 100 mg of Prozac a day cannot do. What an inspiration for holding on to one's ideals! Don't read it in the book store. The money goes to a good cause. If I had money I would buy this book for every depressed English-speaking person in the world; that is, most of us. Also, it is a good place to keep a stirring quote by Eugene V. Debs at hand.
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Summary: NOTICE: THIS IS A CD, NOT A BOOK
Review: The audio production is unabridged and it might be quite good, but you might not know that this was not even in a book format by the listing. Hardcover and cassette are also available, but you'll be very surprised if, like me, you were expecting a book after ordering this specific item, but a CD arrives.
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