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by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut (Author) "Call me Junior ..." (more)
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Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time.

Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Delayed over a year, Vonnegut's latest finally arrives, with alter ego Kilgore Trout facing millennial catastrophe.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but Forgettable, Jun 3 2004
By Melissa McCauley (North Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timequake Abr Cass (Audio Cassette)
TimeQuake seems like Kurt Vonnegut's farewell to his readers. It is not a proper novel at all, but a mish-mash of an idea for a novel, various short stories by his alter-ego, Kilgore Trout, and recollections of Vonnegut's extended family. I listened to the audio version of this book on a long car trip, which was perfect, because there was no long plot to get lost in, merely a series of amusing anecdotes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Timequake: a great way to say goodbye, May 10 2004
By Matthew Brown (Bak Middle School of the Arts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Timequake (Paperback)
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut is a book placed in the years 2001 to 19991 and back to 2001 again, this will become clearer later on in the review. The world is about to suffer a timequake, the universe has not decided whether or not it wants to keep on expanding or shrivel up and die. The universe is zapped back ten years and then it decides to continue expanding, however it must go over the ten years that it zapped itself back from all over again. During the rerun as it is called in the book, everyone is forced to do everything all over again exactly as the did it before the rerun. The story follows Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, author Kilgore Trout through his journey through the timequake.
Timequake is filled with the sarcastic humor that Kurt Vonnegut is known and loved for. Almost every chapter contains some sort of analogy or joke that will make you chuckle as you read across the page. Vonnegut's unconventional style of writing keeps you immensely interested in the book. He skips from subject to subject in every chapter, also every chapter seems to have its own moral and lesson as opposed to there being only one or two morals in the entire novel. His style of writing could even be described as him telling the reader of some of his and his characters past experiences, with no sort of chronological order, most of his thoughts are completely random, yet incredibly funny. One funny thing in the novel is how Vonnegut refers to World War One and World War Two as "humanities unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide." The rest of the book is packed with things as funny and even funnier from page one.
This novel is much more than the simple fiction story, as Vonnegut fans have learned to expect, but more of a journey through which you grow more and more thoughtful with every turn of the page. He sways your opinions and makes you consider sides of the story you never knew existed on subjects such as society, war, poverty, life, and love. He truly bedazzles readers time and time again. He introduces crazy theories, as he has done in many of his other novels, and thus keeps you thinking and interested. You can always discover something new or go into an idea even further every time you read the novel.
This novel is a gift to everyone who reads, it packs everything that you want from a book, humor, an deep thesis, drama, and is even more. It truly is a book that gets you thinking about things you never even thought you would think about and leaves you pondering his theories even after you have finished the text. This unfortunately is Kurt Vonnegut's final book, however even if this is true he has certainly gone out with a bang. I highly recommend this novel.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Vonnegut does Postmodernism, Mar 8 2004
By Martin P. Cohen "Seeker" (Langhorne, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timequake Abr Cass (Audio Cassette)
Vonnegut complains in this novel about how television and movies have drawn away potential readers of novels. Maybe that explains why the book is filled with hackneyed phrases ("Get this...", "The thing is..") and unfunny R rated humor and why phrases like Kilgore Trout's "The squeaky wheel gets the oil" is treated as if it were a clever phrase that he invented. We readers are such dolts after all that we would not appreciate an attempt at anything literary.

In his deconstruction Vonnegut mixes biographical information with a novel within a novel about the timequake in the title, in which everyone is forced to relive the last ten years of their lives. In a monumenally lame attempt to make this interesting people experience the timequake on two levels. They get to do and feel everything that happened previously and they get to watch themselves doing it. For me this requires an impossible act of disbelief suspension. You cannot be a participant and a spectator at the same time.

What keeps this book from being a complete disaster is the biographical information it provides and the skill used in weaving back and forth between fiction and reality. I would recommend this book to diehard Vonnegut fans, but it is not one of his better works.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gutsy and Different: One of my favorite Vonnegut titles
Timequake is... different. You won't find another story out there that is constructed like this one. Why do I give it 5 stars? Read more
Published on Feb 17 2004 by Eric D. Knapp

2.0 out of 5 stars Declining powers
Timequake is not one of Kurt Vonnegut's better books.

For serious fans of Mr. Vonnegut's work, the book's publication in 1997 felt like discovering a bit more of a great meal... Read more

Published on Jan 17 2004 by Eric J. Lyman

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so Hot
It has been my experience that when you are reading Vonnegut lit, you have either picked up a hit or a miss. Read more
Published on Dec 30 2003 by laurenRATM

4.0 out of 5 stars Ting-a-ling!
Ever since I picked up Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle last spring, I have been a fan of Vonnegut. I love his way of meandering through a text. Read more
Published on Nov 17 2003 by lpenney14

5.0 out of 5 stars Somebody shoot me while I'm happy....
I am glad that I invested two late summer afternoons in rereading this novel. It fit my mood perfectly (i.e., gaily mournful. Read more
Published on Sep 11 2003 by OAKSHAMAN

4.0 out of 5 stars A book for our times
Timequake is the only Vonnegut book I have read so far. I finished it this afternoon. Fortunately, I borrowed it from a university library, and there was no back-cover blurb to... Read more
Published on Aug 29 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Misrepresentation
This is what I read on the back cover that intrigued me enough to buy this book: "At 2:27 P.M. on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in... Read more
Published on Aug 21 2003 by G. Flynn

2.0 out of 5 stars God Bless You, and Retire
Understand, I'm a big Vonnegut fan with no paticular axe to grind. I've read all of Vonnegut's published novels. Read more
Published on Aug 9 2003 by Drew Duncan

2.0 out of 5 stars I won't read it twice!
Boring. I didn't enjoy reading this. Just kept hoping the "funny" part would start on the next page, but it never did. I can't believe he got paid to write this .... Read more
Published on Mar 14 2003 by S. Griffin

3.0 out of 5 stars BREAD PUDDING WITH RAISINS
TIMEQUAKE read to me as Vonnegut's memoirs. He decided to re-review his own life. His character, Kilgore Trout, is constructed out of his scrap file of unpublished ideas. Read more
Published on Mar 11 2003 by Worldreels

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