This was a real quick read, and my first Vonnegut book. I guess it was humorous, but I found it difficult to smile while reading the book. I hate cover quips that say a book is funny when it is only slightly amusing. Why not just say the book is amazingly written and intelligent? Do buyers only respond to humor? I want to become a famous critic that sucks and put quotes on famous books like:
Crime and Punishment will be the most exciting and hilarious book you read all year. Or how about:
Titus Andronicus is for Shakespeare what
Transformers 3 is for Michael Bay. So it goes.
Now that my rant of the day is over--I greatly enjoyed the book. I finished en route to places. I read on trains and buses and in a week of short travels I am finished. I am not sure to call this memoir/war story/ or science fiction. I won't classify it then, I'll just remember the Tramalfadorians as a possibility and leave it at that. It is funny, at times I felt that if Vonnegut was more silly he could have been comparable to Douglas Adams. Or maybe if Adams was more serious he could have been Vonnegut. I will have to read more Vonnegut to determine this.
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