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 enlarge | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 8784
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0399155082
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.6
EAN: 9780399155086
ASIN: 0399155082
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 Still Vonnegut June 16, 2008
I thought that this book was pretty good. I only had one major problem with it. I read A Man Without a Country right before it-and the whole first part of the book was essentially the same.
Other than that...I chose to look at it this way: reading Armageddon in Retrospect was like hearing your grandfather tell you a story time and time again. It's nothing new, but if it's good, then you'll at least be slightly interested. Vonnegut told similar stories through the book (and through many others) but they're still good stories.
Worth it. June 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is certainly not a book for a Vonnegut virgin. That is, start with some of his more popular novels (Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night) to get a feel for his writing (his humor, wit, and sarcasm), then work to his collections of stories like this one.
As an avid Vonnegut fan, this book was not a disappointment. It was actually rather nice to read a collection of "new" things after his death. Although neither the subject matter nor his jokes are new, and this book certainly has a sense of the familiar, it is simultaneously an easy and complex read, which I think deserves merit. He does not disappoint, and never fails to inspire.
Great June 4, 2008
Great . have been reading several of his book and we like them . His son with the intro was very good.
Never say no to reading Vonnegut May 27, 2008
Maybe there was a reason that Kurt Vonnegut did not publish these stories. I am glad that his son Mark did. A majority of the stories relate to his experience during WWII. His anti-war writing is always insightful as he portrays the horrors of war for both soldiers and civilians. The introduction by his son Mark is entertaining as well as Kurt's last speech delivered by Mark. It is a must read for those who can't get enough of Vonnegut.
 More needed than ever May 26, 2008
Armageddon in Retrospect is a terrific collection of some short works by Kurt as well as a forward from his son, a pediatrician. There is so much humanity in these stories. Without going into each of them, Wailing Shall Be in All Streets, in many ways supersedes the power of Slaughterhouse Five. This is a sweeping, perhaps blasphemous statement, but my view on the war itself was changed by reading this incredible story. No one could craft sentences and sentiment quite the way Kurt could, and perhaps no one ever will.
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