Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut's pen into hilarious farce--a final slapstick that may be the Almighty's joke on us all.
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Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, centenarian, the last President of the United States, King of Manhattan, and one-half (along with his sister, Eliza) of the most powerful intelligence since Einstein, is penning his autobiography. He occupies the first floor of a ruined Empire State Building and lives like a royal scavenger with his illiterate granddaughter and her beau. Buffeted by fluctuating gravity, the U.S. has been scourged by not one, but two lethal diseases: the Green Death and the Albanian Flu. Consequently, the country has fallen into civil war. (Super-intelligent, miniaturized Chinese watch the West self-destruct from the sidelines.) Swain stayed at the White House until there were no citizens left to govern, then moved to deserted New York City, where he writes a thoughtful missive before death.
In Slapstick, Vonnegut muses on war, man's hubris, and the awful, crippling loneliness humans are freighted with--but, miraculously, the book still manages to delight and amuse. Absurd, knowing, never depressing, Slapstick kindles hope--for the possibility of wisdom, perhaps; for human resiliency, surely.
It's best to end with a quote from the prologue wherein the author discourses on The Meaning of It All, or at least This Book: "Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go off looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please--a little less love, and a little more common decency.'"
Amen.
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"Vonnegut's ongoing puppet show. . .the fabulous is reborn."--John Updike, The New Yorker.
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Von Jane James
Format:Taschenbuch
Vonnegut himself said he couldn't decide if this book was his worst - or his best.
I love this one and it's my favorite Vonnegut book.
In it he actually discusses his own life a good bit, and his relationship with his sister, with whom he was very close. I felt like I had a much better idea of who Vonnegut is after reading this one.
The two main characters are very engaging, and the story is classic Vonnegut -- you gotta love people despite all their faults. The story is post-Apocalyptic, as so many of his stories are, but it has a more positive feel to it than many of them, despite the poor circumstances the people are in.
The message that life goes on is a hopeful one. I found the relationship between the main characters to be very thought-provoking. I think the critics vilified this one when it was first published, and I can't say that if you like Vonnegut you'll love this one -- because even some of his fans didn't like this one so much.
But if you like the idea of 2 soulmates being better together than they are separately, and if you've a fondness for the idiosyncracies of geniuses, you might like this one as much as I did.
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This book follows the life of a disfigured mutant ,who becomes president, and his sister, and is as rich in ideas as it is in humor. It's a Plato's Republic for our time.
If you are interested in the world of ideas, interested in better understanding human relationships, and have a mind open to things which you don't agree with, then this book, like the rest of Vonnegut and literature in general, is something you should take a look at.
Von "maxsteel"
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"SLAPSTICK OR LONESOME NO MORE," by Kurt Vonnegut is a great satirical and weird story of two ugly twins named Eliza Mellon Swain and Wilbur Rockefeller Swain, who after being parted by their parents and not seeing each other in a long time, went berserk in the reunion. Ironically, neither Eliza nor Wilbur were expected to be intelligent or live more than 14 years old, but who would say that Wilbur would turn out to be the president of the U.S.A. and meet with the king of Michigan. And that Eliza would die at the age of 50 in an avalanche on the outskirts of the chinese colony on the planet Mars. This is a great story put into a bizarre way because "it's the closest thing that Vonnegut will ever come to an autobiography and the way he feels towards life."
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5.0 von 5 Sternen
I'm lonesome no more
Great book! Recommended for all ages!
Am 17. April 2000 veröffentlicht
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BEST BY VONNEGUT... RATED 2 MILLION STARS
THIS IS THE BEST NOVEL IV'E EVER READ. VONNEGUT OUT DOES EVEN HIMSELF..( AND THATS DIFFICULT ) FULL OF MODERN SOCIAL TRUTH HIGH-LIGHTED BY DARK/TWISTED COMEDY...DIE LAUGHING. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Dezember 1999 von xsevenx
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a must read for all humans
This is perhaps my favorite of Vonnegut's works, and I'm a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut. It's lively and entertaining on almost every level. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
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LEARN HOW TO READ
Several of the reviews I have read on this book portray it as a work of wit without reason. The most significant social statement in this book is it's emphasis on community and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. September 1999 veröffentlicht
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LEARN HOW TO READ
Several of the reviews I have read on this book portray it as a work of wit without reason. The most significant social statement in this book is it's emphasis on community and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. September 1999 veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen
My favorite Vonnegut novel!
Although I feel that Mr. Vonnegut would be appalled (if he even cares), Slapstick is my favorite of all his novels. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. August 1999 veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen
Underrated
This may have been Vonnegut's best
Am 19. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
5.0 von 5 Sternen
Purely Belligerent. Utterly Vulgar, Crass, and Distasteful.
This string of lewd, offensive, scarileges classifies as pure blasphemy. It defied all of the principles of a good Christian up-bringing. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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Worth a read, although not his best
Slapstick has been criticized widely as Kurt's lousiest work, yet it is still certainly worth a read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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blech. You can only go so far over the top
it's not a good sign that Vonnegut writes that this is one of his most autobiographical and then goes to create on of the most annoyingly self-satisfied characters in any of his... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Februar 1999 von Chelsea Martinez
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