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Summary: "Too openly supported evil and too secretly supported good"
Review: I must have read this novel four times when I was in Germany, each time becoming more compelling and memorable. I am still in awe at the beauty and magic that Vonnegut uses to create this story. I have read many of his novels and none have moved me so deeply like this one. I highly recommend it to anyone who is searching for a momerable spot in history to lose themselves to. It's an excellent novel to read and ponder.
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Summary: My favorite vonnegut book!
Review: The moral of the story that sticks with me years later "You are what you pretend to be. So you better be careful what you pretend to be". Classic sarcasm, truth and humor about the meaning of life.
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Summary: One of Vonnegut's most powerful novels.
Review: Signiture Vonnegut in this great work about Howard W. Campbell Jr. a Nazi propagandist who is actually an American spy. This novel takes the reader in side the mind of a man at the end of his rope. Mother Night is a classic Vonnegut with one of the most haunting endings ever in a novel. A must read for an avid Vonnegut reader.
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Summary: Brilliant, intelligent, humorous!
Review: Vonnegut has delivered a novel that leads to surprise after surprise in his typically subtle, quiet and unobtrusive style. This novel is choked full of irony and humour about the Holocaust, making you feel you should be offended or guilty for reading it, but you don't. Instead, you turn the last page feeling relieved and desperate at the same time.
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Summary: Be careful what you pretend to be - you may become it
Review: Take a minute to imagine this: You're an American spy in Nazi Germany, and the only thing you care about in the world is your wife. You pretend to be an American traitor in Nazi Germany, spouting vile propoganda to the world on radio. When the war ends, and your wife is gone, and no one in the U. S. will ever officially admit you were "one of the good guys" during the war, what can you possibly find to do with the rest of your days? After you've imagined yourself in this situation, pick up this book and experience it first hand. It's fast and furious and funny as only Vonnegut can be.
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Summary: The Best Book of the 4 Vonneguts I've Read
Review: I really enjoyed the matter-of-fact manner in which this story was written. The main character has an uncanny ability to recount events without passing judgment on their morality. I liken the narrator of this book to a third party candidate for political office. There's no partisanship or extreme thinking but rather the ability to see both sides of an issue with equal clarity . I enjoyed this book a bit more than "Jailbird," "Slaughterhouse Five," and "Cat's Cradle." The action was easy to follow and comprehend. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: One of the greatest Vonnegut books ever!!
Review: Most people claim Slaughterhouse Five or Breakfast of Champions as his greatest, but I must say, Iput Mother Night right up there. The plot, loaded through and through with flashbacks to the main character's past life as a secret agent for the American Government while working as "the last true American" for the Nazi propaganda machine, he's hunted down by neo-Nazi idol-worshippers, communist spies, and an Israeli government desperate to put him on trial for his crimes against humanity. It is an eye-opening excercise into the human mind, loaded with Vonnegut's omnipresent wit and sarcasm. Definitely a must read for any Vonnegut fan.
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Summary: Vintage Vonnegut and much, much more!
Review: In Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut gives perhaps the most humerous(but still respectful) view of the Holocaust and Nazism ever thought up. As he always does, Vonnegut pushes the envelope of what is acceptable and while doing that makes us ponder if we're acceptable. WOW! I haven't yet seen the movie, but I can't wait. Even Hollywood couldn't screw up this astounding peace of literature.
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Summary: My Favorite vonnegut book
Review: This is Kurt Vonnegut more controlled than usual, but more freewheeling than in Slaughterhouse. definitely found it more fun to read and appreciated the subject matter better
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Summary: Another remarkable venture by one of the masters of satire.
Review: Though this is the most humorless of the Vonnegut novels I've read, I also believe it makes a rather profound statement about the true meanings of good and evil. Though this is only my interpretation, I believe this novel is a statement against those who would put the nature of right and wrong in rigid, unnegotiable divisions. It encourages the reader to take a moment and think before judging a situation solely on personal biases. A quote from this book that particularly struck me, and I believe reflects the theme of the novel is this: "Say what you want about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" I hesitate to give this book five stars only because I reserve that rating only for books that leave me with the feeling that I won't read something that good for quite awhile. Nonetheless, an excellent book that has my recomendation.
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