Rating: 
Summary: Why not?
Review: If you fell in love with Trout in Breakfast of Champions then this book is for you! I began reading Vonnegut years ago and Kilgore is undoubtedly my favorite of all his characters! This book offers a wonderful swelling truth and the scenes depicted can be equated to staring at a Van Gogh from three inches. This book is a must have for any sci-fi reader and also for those that like the satiric twisting of phrases. A must have for anyone's personal library!
Rating: 
Summary: A Feeble Hoax
Review: In case you're still not sure, this is NOT a book by Kurt Vonnegut. Unless you've already read everything by Vonnegut several times and are still craving more, don't waste your time with this deep space twaddle. If you want to read something by Kilgore Trout, pick up God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, one of Vonnegut's best, which contains summaries of some of Trout's greatest hits.
Rating:
Summary: A Feeble Hoax
Review: In case you're still not sure, this is NOT a book by Kurt Vonnegut. Unless you've already read everything by Vonnegut several times and are still craving more, don't waste your time with this deep space twaddle. If you want to read something by Kilgore Trout, pick up God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, one of Vonnegut's best, which contains summaries of some of Trout's greatest hits.
Rating:
Summary: Like a joke that wasn't supposed to be a joke.
Review: It was humorous when Vonnegut described the works of Kilgore Trout in a single paragraph. If you spread that paragraph over an entire book, you end up with garbage. The idea of Kilgore Trout was that he was extremely clever but couldn't write. The themes of his books all revolved around a single idea. In Venus on the Halfshell, the true author shames Vonnegut by calling himself one of Vonnegut's greatest characters.
Rating:
Summary: Outdoes Vonnegut at every turn. Farmer=penultimate hack.
Review: Phil Farmer has written circles around many of the great writers of all time. The reason Vonnegut was so mad when this was published is that he got thousands of letters from his fans saying, "Kurt, this is the funniest thing you've ever written." In his anger, he withdrew permission for additional Trout novels, the B-----d! Also check out "Riders of the Purple Wage," the Hugo-winning novella in Dangerous Visions, in which Farmer outwrites James Joyce a la Finnegan's Wake. ...and he's written quite a few of the best Edgar Rice Burroughs novels ever written.
Rating: 
Summary: Must get hold of bk for those who grew up on si-fi & fantasy
Review: Si-fi and Fantasy mag published this book in the mid 70's. I gave my copy to someone and never got it back
I yet remember it with a kind of fondness. I was in search for the meaning of life and the book had an ending that made me stop looking and get on with it. If any one out there would like
to sell me a second hand copy, please send me an email on
hitenpatel@hotmail.co
Rating:
Summary: A satire approch to the meaning of life
Review: Simon is a great charactor to use on a high-flying imaginitivly funny prediction of how the universe was created.
Rating:
Summary: Humorous and irreverant look at sex and the universe
Review: Simon, "the space wanderer," the last surviving human, seeks the meaning of life. His journey takes him to various planets where aliens help Simon to answer the unanswerable, "Why is man born only to suffer and die?"
Of particluar interest to fans of Kurt Vonnegut as the "author," Kilgore Trout, is a recurring character in his books. Bizarre and funny, though one of my friends of more religious bent found it "depressing." Go figure.
Rating: 
Summary: Better imagined than read.
Review: Since Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. claimed to have freed all of his literary characters in 1973's _Breakfast of Champions_, on the surface it seems only reasonable that Kilgore Trout should begin producing books on his own. But, like the movie monster that is only scary while it remains unseen, the "reality" of Trout is better imagined than read. _Venus on the Half-Shell_ is a terrific pastiche of Vonnegut's writing style and Trout's half-baked science fiction plots, but too many ideas and too little plot make a story that simply isn't worth the effort. I can't imagine this book inspiring Eliot Rosewater to suggest that Trout should be President of the United States. Perhaps this book is why Vonnegut ultimately reclaimed Trout as a character in _Galapagos_ and _Timequake_. Besides, it can't really be a Kilgore Trout novel when the cover art isn't half-obscured by a lurid blurb for "Wide Open ###"-- Well, you get the idea.
Rating:
Summary: Compared to Pan-Galactic Straw Boss
Review: Since Pan-Galactic Straw Boss, Trout's writing has shown a lack of his usual creative genius. But, Venus on the Half-Shell proves he was never gone. Kudos to a master of his genre
| 
