The Gnome King reviewed Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Review of 'Galapagos' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Such a clever book. Started this thinking it was going to be all about Galapagos, some sort non-fiction book, I was well wrong. It's a vision of a future that we might be heading for, with the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer, world hunger still a major concern and us always seeming to be on the edge of WWIII, it seems quite an accurate prediction... time to book a spot on the "Nature cruise of the century".
I was surprised how dark and bitter Vonnegut got at times, at one point he commented what a good idea it would be if humans all got wiped out. And near the end he compares the once beautiful planet with the autopsy of a person who has died from cancer. Dark stuff!
I also learnt some interesting things about the Galapagos islands on the island featured in this book there …
Such a clever book. Started this thinking it was going to be all about Galapagos, some sort non-fiction book, I was well wrong. It's a vision of a future that we might be heading for, with the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer, world hunger still a major concern and us always seeming to be on the edge of WWIII, it seems quite an accurate prediction... time to book a spot on the "Nature cruise of the century".
I was surprised how dark and bitter Vonnegut got at times, at one point he commented what a good idea it would be if humans all got wiped out. And near the end he compares the once beautiful planet with the autopsy of a person who has died from cancer. Dark stuff!
I also learnt some interesting things about the Galapagos islands on the island featured in this book there is a "Vampire finch" which drinks the blood of Blue footed boobies. And the marine iguana that eats algae and seaweed which is impossible to digest so it sits on a hot rock to cook the contents of it's stomach. It's all true, look it up on the Internets.
This was a really good book and I enjoyed it more than slaughterhouse 5. Vonnegut is now one of my fav authors.
