The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
Taste attributes: science fictioncomedyfresh & originalunsavouryheavyimaginaryintricatebig & variedemotive & stirringsocial commentaryfish out of water/culture clashfool triumphant
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, inventive science-fiction novel: serious and sweeping. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Pace: balanced · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
"His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer ...
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- Kurt Vonnegut
- Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 319
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