Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Spanning nearly two decades and covering the breadth of Vonnegut's topics, Welcome to the Monkey House is inconsistent in both style and quality. The stories very from the inane domestic scenarios of 'Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son' and 'Long Walk to Forever' (clearly aimed at the postwar housewife) to weird science fiction comedies, including 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.' The latter type are mostly concerned with overpopulation and the morality of scientific advancement, two issues he seems to have dwelled heavily on in those years. In this collection, frequent Vonnegut readers will find familiar characters (e.g. band director George Helmholtz) and ideas seen in other works, such as volunteer suicide and compulsory handicaps. A couple of the pieces are terribly boring, a few are highly original and amusing, and the story 'Harrison Bergeron' is one of the few examples of a written work that improved in its adaptation to film.

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2.5 out of 5
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