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Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano (1974, Laurel) 4 stars

Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a …

“If Checker Charlie was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charlie do the same.”

Player Piano by  (19%%)

This is exactly how I feel when the fancy camera self-checkouts at work ring up my $12 lunch as a $3 pack of Claritin from time to time. If they’re spending this money to replace human workers with machines that are supposed to know all, who am I to disagree?