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“A moving fable . . . Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, continues to write gentle swan songs for our uncivil society.”—Playboy
“The master at his quirky, provocative best.”—Cosmopolitan
“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time
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Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are.
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TO THE AS-YET-UNBORN, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. Read the first page
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TO THE AS-YET-UNBORN, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favourite books ever!,
By Mr Stuart A Woolgar (In bed) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deadeye Dick: A Novel (Paperback)
The first Vonnegut book I ever read, and the strangest I feel. The kid shoots some guy from a tower and his whole life falls apart due to that one event. He writes an atrociously parochial play that gets laughed at in the Big Apple of America. When writing about the failures of everyday life humanity, Vonnegut is at his best. This has all of the most tragically funny events and characters woven into a nauseous tale. My favourite part is where the kid who writes the play, writes his own script of the situation of his brother arguing with his brother's girlfriend. Some call it black humour, I think that doesn't do it's creativity justice. A must read!
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This review is from: Deadeye Dick: A Novel (Paperback)
Read this after reading Breakfast of Champions, you'll enjoy it that much more.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Muted story,
By julian (Malta) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deadeye Dick: A Novel (Paperback)
In Deadeye Dick, the underlying messages shine through Vonnegut's words, the morals of innocence, the corruption of being etc. etc.But Vonnegut forgot one thing in this book. The story. What is in his other books a perfect mixture of story and the underlying morals, here it is a decidedly lop-sided affair. The story is very unengaging and I found it quite tedious, to be frank. And unfortunately, it went downhill after an ok-ish start. Thankfully, those recipes he throws in very frequently at the first part of the novel are toned down because what was a good idea would have turned into an annoying one if continued too frequently. This is the most disappointing Vonnegut book I've read so far.
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