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Summary: An entertaining look at the purpose of humanity
Review: The blurb on the back cover of the Sirens of Titans advertises "a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell." Perhaps I missed the boat, but I didn't find Vonnegut's message so unique. That said, Vonnegut spins an entertaining, humorous tale that seems to ridicule anyone who takes humanity too seriously.
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Summary: among vonnegut's best
Review: the sirens of titan is perhaps the best book written by vonnegut, or by any other human being in the history of this world. his message is at once deep and hilarious and unsettling. he presents you with a lighning bolt that shocks you into consciousness. he moves you to tears and leaves you wondering, what's gonna happen next? my favorite book of all time, as you must have guessed, along with slaughterhouse five. vonnegut should have been the president of the united states. his vision is unique.
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Summary: A masterpiece.
Review: I have read every Vonngeut book written. I have to say this book covers every Vonnegut-esque subject somehow, although vaguely. From an execution on Mars, to the search for a way off Mercury, to finally finding the true meaning of life, KV has accomplished this. I HIGHLY recommend this book over Slaughter or Cat's, although both are 5 star books as well. Overall, a masterpiece.
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Summary: Awesome novel! Vonnegut's near-best!
Review: i really liked it. it's exciting, sci-fi, adventurous, and wondefully written. I could not have loved it more. except for the ending.
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Summary: 'Sirens' Challenges Your Faith
Review: Be prepared for a rocket ride - not just through the overrated regions of space/time, but through the very fabric of the human condition in its need to believe in something "bigger" than itself asserting influence over the universe. 'Sirens' provides compelling, if somewhat comical, doubts strong enough to rattle the most stalwart of faiths. An incredible ride!
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Summary: WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!!! MIND-BLOWING!!!!
Review: I had to read this book in high school and browsed it like any other book but was intrigued. I am now in my last year of college and decided to go back to it and it has changed the way that I look at the world.. It really is an experience to read this book. It offers a profound vision of everything from religion to predestination to human relations to technology. I was really moved by a book for the FIRST time in my life and am thankful to Mr. Vonnegut for this. I am not an avid reader but I am reading other Vonnegut books presently and have just finished Slaughterhouse 5. I am truly addicted. Sirens of Titan was an astonishing, surreal, self-evaluating, shocking, and trippy journey that I have and would recommend to anyone that wants to be entertained while also doing a great deal of soul searching.. WHAT A GREAT TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: An underrated joy!
Review: Vonneguts 'The Sirens of Titan' is an underrated masterpiece in his extensive catalog of material. More frolicking than his later works, this book takes the reader across the solar system in a delightful foray into parody and satire. Unlike his sometimes obvious - dare I say heavyhanded - novels that came later, Sirens remains fairly subtle and always witty throughout.A *MUST READ* for Vonnegut fans, or just casual readers looking for something to dig their teeth into. Certainly one of Vonneguts three best.
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Summary: An insightful, brilliant, anomic, entertaining SF satire
Review: My 13-year old daughter needed a SF book for a school assignment. "Dune" proved too difficult for her, so I pulled one of my favorites from my college days. I was afraid, because KV can be as depressing as he is delightful. I followed her progress carefully, discussing the bizarre tale at each step. We're not religious, although we frequently discuss religion in the context of mythology. KV's irreverent satiricism is incredible; the danger is that he doesn't always include hope in his message. Kind of a literary Frank Zappa, another of my adolescent icons. It's a wild tale, just be careful not to let it make you as cynical as the author. Life's not as pointless as he makes it.
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Summary: Somebody up there likes me
Review: This is the third Vonnegut novel I've read (along with "Cat's Cradle" and "Breakfast of Champions"), and again, Vonnegut strikes gold. "Sirens" is a grand metaphor for organized religion, and even when it all works out really well (all of earth is unified, and people accentuate their weaknesses if they are talented), somebody must get used or abused in order for it to work (those people here being Malachi Constant and Mrs. Rumfoord). Again, Vonnegut uses language that a child could understand to create powerful linguistic and philosophical ideas. Compared to the other two Vonnegut books I've read, the writing here is not as concise, because this is his first novel, and was still working on inventing his own "language." Solidly entertaining and meaningful.
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Summary: this is all you need
Review: Skip slaughterhouse-five and Breakfast of Champions. This, in my opinion, is Vonnegut's greatest.
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