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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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1.0 out of 5 stars
Not about a sharpshooter detective,
By Keith Whitener (Handsome Ville, USA__Population: Me) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deadeye Dick: A Novel (Paperback)
Kurt Vonnegut's style is usually able to make his books fast reading even if the plot and characters are bad, but this book is plain terrible. I picked it up because I though it would be about a sharpshooter detective, but it was about this kid that accidentally killed a pregnant woman when he shot a rifle out of his window and the ramifications of this act on his life. This book, like most of Vonnegut's, takes place in Indiana and is about the main character growing up and some events that take place during his lifetime. Since, however, the events that Vonnegut chose to include and the characters they involve are uninteresting, this book is bad. If you want a good book by Vonnegut, get Breakfast of Champions instead.
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.
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