Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
Breakfast of Champions.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: Breakfast of Champions only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: Breakfast of Champions only.

Novels & Stories 1963–1973 also contains three short stories:
  • "Welcome to the Monkey House," 1968
  • "Fortitude," 1968 [actually a play / screenplay]
  • "The Big Space Fuck," 1972

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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Tokarczuk, Flights (2019)

Olga Tokarczuk.
Flights.
Translated by Jennifer Croft.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House), 2019.
Originally published as: Bieguni, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007.
First English language edition: London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.

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Friday, September 05, 2025

Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
Slaughterhouse-Five.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; GoodReads.com: Slaughterhouse-Five only; Amazon.com: Novels & Stories 1963–1973; Amazon.com: Slaughterhouse-Five only.

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Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (2011)

Kurt Vonnegut.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
In Novels & Stories 1963–1973.
Edited by Sidney Offit.
Book Series: Library of America, number 216.
New York: The Library of America, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Publisher, slipcase edition; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Notable Quotes :
  • "What in hell are people for?" (Chapter 2, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, page 204 in the Library of America edition.)
  • "The problem is this: how to love people who have no use?" (Chapter 14, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, page 332 in the Library of America edition.)