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Bezig met laden... God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (origineel 1965; editie 1998)door Kurt Vonnegut
Informatie over het werkGods rijkste zegen, Mr. Rosewater !, of Paarlen voor de zwijnen door Kurt Vonnegut (1965)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Satiiri, mutta onko kuitenkaan. En tiedä tökkikö suomennos vai mikä, mutta en nyt päässyt tämän huumorin kyytiin. ( ) On a roll with good books this year. Maybe more reason to continue cracking through my backlog. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a humorous-yet-depressing novel about greed and politics in America, starring the troubled main character Eliot Rosewater, who finds a way to love even the most "useless" of people, in an economical sense. Obviously, this is troubling to his Senator father, as well as an outsider who attempts to use his love for the people as justification to call him insane in the courts. Very direct in its message and heavy-handed in its themes as Vonnegut tends to be. Such an engaging read that I essentially finished it in a day. God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater... 2023-10-15: I didn't get far and I'll come back to it but it wasn't the escape I needed from Awake. 2023-11-10: I think it's a recurring thing with Vonnegut that I dislike his books at the beginning and then love them further in. This book is genius. Elliot is the Buddha and Jesus and Lao Tzu all rolled up in a wrapper of compassion. He sees that the bullshit is bullshit where everyone else thinks it's gold. He cares about people just because they're people and because of that everyone thinks he's insane. 2023-11-19: I'm kind ambivalent about this one. The whole story was about how insane Elliot was because he treats people with kindness and respect. Even Elliot thinks he's insane. He certainly doesn't seem to see that he's right and it's the rest of the world that's broken. Elliot may be the only person that Elliot doesn't treat with compassion. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless. This is a novel about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money. It is the story of a millionaire's lunacy, the obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness of a nation. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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