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Summary: Not the best, but good
Review: This is by far not Vonnegut's best, but it is still very good. It is especially enjoyable if you like books about crazy, rich people. Eliot Rosewater fits both categories. This drunken volunteer fireman is almost completely unpredictable, it makes for a great story.
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Summary: Vonnegut is the master...
Review: Next to Breakfast of Champions, this is my favorite Vonnegut book. I found myself laughing, shaking my head at the absurdity of the book and how it correlates to the ideals we live with. It makes a bold statement, but does so in a subtle way. It lets the reader make connections and Vonnegut steers the reader with skill and precision.
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Summary: Vonnegut does something right
Review: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a great read. It is funny, and something to go in between books of intellectual substance. Without requring much thought, Vonnegut entertains with a delightful smile. I can't get over the absurdity of Kilgore Trout and the Eccentricity of Mr. Rosewater. This book is short and sweet.
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Summary: To call this a DEEP read is an understatement.
Review: Mr. Vonnegut has put forth a great piece of literature that binds together the worlds of poverty and gross wealth in a study on what makes human beings worthwhile or worthless and the make up of the architect of man. This novel is a collage of introspection and lessons. Using religious allegory, Vonnegut shows that human beings are only human-- whether poor or rich. His god figurine, when all sculpted by the end of the book, shows the reader a view on the creator of man: entropic on the surface, yet acutely set in his ways of good, even after the denouncment of him by his people. Take this view however you wish. Vonnegut's god is all of us: rich, poor, filthy, crazy... the list goes on. And Vonnegut raises the strange question: Was God crazy for producing mankind? This novel is thought provoking, entertaining, and enlightening. Take my view however you wish.
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Summary: Read the book again after 20 years
Review: I just finished reading this book for the first time since I was in college - and I am 43 now. It is much different than I remember it. Being a book about money and distribution of same, it is natural and right that I would see it much differently now, after being emeshed for years in the workaday capitalistic world, than when I was an idealistic college student. However, having said that, I wonder how much of the book REALLY is about money, and how much of it is really about pride, humanitarianism, and being a friend. Elliot Rosewater simply wants the world to be a better place. He does not really deceive himself into thinking that money itself is a cureall - he seems to understand that charity, in and of itself, is not the answer. Self respect and holding one's head up is. Is Elliot really crazy? Heck, yes! But just because he's crazy does not mean that all of his ideas and thoughts are insane. Like most of Vonnegut's books, this is a fable - you could pick it apart all day if you like on the facts and the contradictions - but that would not diminish it. It is a fine fable, and contains many truths. It's a good book.
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Summary: God Bless You, Eliot!
Review: Eliot Rosewater, a millionaire-become-champion-of-the-little-people is accused of being insane and floats through his attempt at a good benevolent existence in an absurd world where insanity is shunned, but simple existence is automatic insanity.
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Summary: Out of touch
Review: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is the worst book I've ever read by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's usual rapid-paced prose and intense dialogue is largely absent in this somewhat preachy novel about wealth and charity. Though there are a few interesting scenes which may save the story from total failure, both the plot and main characters remain underdeveloped throughout most of the book. This was the first (and hopefully will remain the only) Vonnegut book I have ever struggled to finish.
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Summary: A Structual Interpretive Dialogue on Subjectivity
Review: This work's subjective depth is matched only by the realm of interpretive choice into which its reader is instantly and forcefully exposed. The diametrically opposed and paradoxical modes of Rosewater's emotional diatribe leave the reader- as well as all of the characters who encounter Mr. Rosewater- grasping to come to terms with their own conceptual frameworks in which they deplore subjectivity. That being said, this work effectively captures the perpetual conflict of subjective (and objective) frameworks as demonstrated through Rosewater and the self-deprecating subtelties that construct the boundaries (or lack thereof) of his identity. Bye!
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Summary: Not one of Vonnegut's more interesting reads
Review: This book has all the makings of a classic Vonnegut text. However, it lacks depth, and the plot never really thickens. By the end of the novel, I was asking myself, "Wait, how did we get to this point in the story?" The overall idealism which is used to give character development to Rosewater takes away from the reality of the situation. The novel does have rewarding characteristics, but I do not think this should be the first book by Vonnegut that one reads.
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Summary: great book
Review: I have read a bunch of Vonnegut's books and I would rank it up there with cat's cradle and Sirens of Titan as my favorites. It does a good job putting into words the way we should all look at money in our lives. If you are a fan of Vonnegut's i am positive you will like this book.
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