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Beschreibung
Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...
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Puh. Das Buch drückt die ganz tief sitzenden Ängste vor einem Armageddon aus. Very uncomfortable. UNd trotzdem lustig, wie es so Vonneguts Art ist (time for a re-read of Slaughterhouse-Five). Ein Blurb auf dem backcover: "Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched", und das trifft es ganz gut. Und er zwingt einen als Leser, auch hinzuschauen. Was mich ganz schön mitgenommen hat. Und das Wunder: das Buch ist nicht nihilistisch. Glaube ich. Anyway, ein Buch, das mit den Worten beginnt "Nothing in this book is true. Live by the [harmless untruths] that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy" ist ein Buch, das mir nur gefallen kann. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead. And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing."
Ugh it is so hard to process when a book's story is so compelling but the author had to go and tell in some fucked-up problematic ways. And no. Vonnegut was not just a "product of his time". He actively chose to be ableist and racist, going and using the *m-word, and at the exact same time anti-colonial and anti-imperialist. Reconcile that one.
Beschreibung
Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Puh. Das Buch drückt die ganz tief sitzenden Ängste vor einem Armageddon aus. Very uncomfortable. UNd trotzdem lustig, wie es so Vonneguts Art ist (time for a re-read of Slaughterhouse-Five). Ein Blurb auf dem backcover: "Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched", und das trifft es ganz gut. Und er zwingt einen als Leser, auch hinzuschauen. Was mich ganz schön mitgenommen hat. Und das Wunder: das Buch ist nicht nihilistisch. Glaube ich. Anyway, ein Buch, das mit den Worten beginnt "Nothing in this book is true. Live by the [harmless untruths] that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy" ist ein Buch, das mir nur gefallen kann. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead. And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing."
Ugh it is so hard to process when a book's story is so compelling but the author had to go and tell in some fucked-up problematic ways. And no. Vonnegut was not just a "product of his time". He actively chose to be ableist and racist, going and using the *m-word, and at the exact same time anti-colonial and anti-imperialist. Reconcile that one.