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In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. …
Decided not to keep reading past the introduction.
This is not Deadeye Dick, it is "Fanaticism explained
A great, concise plea to advance mankind's behavior in the era of powerful technology. Much of what Szent-Györgyi discusses is still politically and scientifically relevant today, but there are cases of historical events since the books publication significantly shifting the context of the book (but mostly in interesting ways, not invalidating the core message of the text). His optimism in scientific thinking is painful to read, knowing how short we've come up.
In the appendix of my copy is a "Psalmus Humanus" along with six humanist prayers from the author.
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
"Ur-Fascism" or "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" (in Italian: Il fascismo eterno, or Ur-Fascismo) is an …
“Bagombo Snuff Box resurrects Vonnegut’s earliest efforts, stories written during the fifties and sixties for …
Couple of gems, but mostly the stories are small-town character pieces of mixed quality. Not Vonnegut's finest.