Sunday, December 14, 2008

~*~::{Reading Blog #18: Slapstick}::~*~

I was in a very read-y mood this weekend, so I read all of Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut.  This is probs by far my all-time favorite book.  It truly was good.  

The main part of this story takes place in future day New York which has been deserted by fever and disease, leaving only Wilbur and his grand daughter and her man.  It was about a man named Wilbur.  In his early days as a youngster, he had a twin sister named Eliza.  Now, seperated, they were no smarter than a tree.   But when put together, they were geniuses.  Throughout this book, it flashes back to the futuristic New York.  Fast forwarding through his life, he mentions how he wishes he had a huge family...so, when he gets elected president, he assigns everyone in the country a new name.  A noun and a number.  So everyone with the matching noun and number were family members...so that if they ever felt alone, they could just say to themselves "Oh, well, I feel alone...good thing I'm 1 of thousands of dandelion-11's".  I think that's a good idea, actually...a bit extensive of a task to do, but...wutevs.

Oh!  And then the end!  The kid with the tourettes!  This kid had tourettes and made obscene comments that made me laugh so freakin' hard!  AH!!

I loved this book.  It made me laugh a bunch. 

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"...every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us..."