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List Price: $14.00Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385333498
ISBN: 0385333498
Label: The Dial Press
Manufacturer: The Dial Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: September 08, 1998
Publisher: The Dial Press
Release Date: September 08, 1998
Sales Rank: 4440
Studio: The Dial Press
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The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr's The Sirens of Titan begins with Malachi Constant, the richest man in a 22nd-century America, remaining stagnant in regards to his life. He possesses extraordinary luck, which he has used to build upon his father's fortune, but he hadn't really done anything with his life. However, that changes when he becomes the center point of a journey that takes him from Earth to Mars in preparation for an interplanetary war, to Mercury with another Martian survivor of that war, back to Earth ... Read More
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Abandon all native ways of thought processing. Kurt Vonnegut strips his readers' idea of reality apart and replaces it with a new one. Whether it is dark or beautiful it is the reader's choice depending on how it is perceived.
Vonnegut's, Sirens of Titan, exploits tremendous amounts of black comedy, satire, irony, and contradictory ideas. This may leave the reader overwhelmed but, he does this with grace and a complete unexpected turn of events. Even though that these ideas are blatant throughout ... Read More
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The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut tells about a journey through space and time while encompassing a bewildering riddle about life. Malachi Constant, the richest American, visits Winston Niles Rumford at the Rumford Estate. Winston, who is the first person to own his own space shuttle, tells Malachi to travel to Mars, Mercury, Earth, and Titan. Rumford strangely went on further by revealing portions of Malachi's future. The story then opens up several years later in Mars where a militia plans and organizes ... Read More
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3 and 1/2 Stars.
'The Sirens of Titan' is the first Vonnegut novel I've read (unless you want to count his short story book, 'Welcome to the Monkey House')and I was fairly impressed. The book is great science fiction (sans scientific accuracy - it is fiction, anyway) but, even more so, a solid black comedy and satire.
The greatest part of the book, in regard to satire and comedy, is it's build up towards ideas of God and the Meaning of Life, then flipping the coin on it's head and delivering ... Read More
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When I finished the book I thought, "that was one of the saddest things I have ever read." I felt so used by the author it was erie, but then you realize that the fact Vonnegut was just able to do that to you, is pretty cool.
This is one of those books that you really cannot build a love for the characters because everything turns into just exactly what you were not expecting. If you do start to build feelings of the characters, you will be heart-broken & betrayed when you continue to read on. But then again, ... Read More
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