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| Original Title: | Galápagos |
| ISBN: | 0385333870 (ISBN13: 9780385333870) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Kilgore Trout, Leon Trotsky Trout, James Wait, Andrew MacIntosh |
| Setting: | Ecuador Galapagos(Ecuador) |
| Literary Awards: | John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1986) |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Paperback | Pages: 324 pages Rating: 3.88 | 63631 Users | 2669 Reviews
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Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry—and all that is worth saving.
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| Title | : | Galápagos |
| Author | : | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 324 pages |
| Published | : | January 12th 1999 by Dial Press (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Classics. Humor |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 63631 Users | 2669 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Galápagos
"In this era of big brains, anything which can be done will be done -- so hunker down."-- Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos Trying to stay a couple books ahead of my son as I re-read Vonnegut. I haven't read much since those years between 13 and 18 when I seemed to burn through Vonnegut books again and again. He was one of those few writers I ever read twice (Dickens, Shakespeare, and Hugo are a few others). So, now as an adult I am approaching these books again. God I love this man. I love his hopeful,"One million years ago, back in 1986 A.D., Guayaquil was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador". This is the opening line of the science fiction book entitled Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut. Now (year 1,001,986), civilization is existent in one place only: Galapagos. The narrator, Leon Trotsky Trout, who has been a ghost for those one million years, relates to the reader the events that occurred resulting in this new civilization.The human race died out because of a
3.5 stars. This was not one of my favorite Vonnegut novels to be sure. I liked the concept of humans evolving 1,000,000 years into the future based on a single ancestor. I enjoyed the contemplations of evolution and placing the seminal moment in the Galapagos. However I did not care one iota for any of the characters. But it is Vonnegut after all and there are sections that are thought provoking. Perhaps the idea would have been better expressed as a short story or novella.
Kurt Vonnegut explains that the greatest achievement of The Origin of Species is that it has done "more to stabilize peoples volatile opinions of how to identify success or failure than any other tome." The thinking is that so long as we continue to survive challenges, we will have improved over those that came before.We often associate survival with success, merit and quality, and Vonnegut goes out of his way to undermine this notion in one of his less appreciated novels, Galapagos.Leon Trotsky
It was a complicated relationship, with this book. I love Vonnegut, so I was more than enthusiastic to start yet another book by him. And as I started reading it, I got stuck right away... It took me a MONTH and a couple of days to finish it. Which is unusual for me, with Vonnegut.My main problem with it - knowing from the start that all the characters were doomed and what sort of fate awaited them (and the whole humanity too, btw) wasn't good. There were no surprises, no "aha!" moments, no
This is either the best or the worst travel book ever written. I was traveling through central Europe while I read this book. And as I read, I kept thinking that perhaps I was on my own "Nature Cruise of the Century." I thought that perhaps my own version of James Wait was around every corner. Now, let my oversized brain ruin a simple book review, let me finish by saying that there were no currency crises, wars, drunken captains, or con artists (at least that I knew of) on my trip. I wasn't
Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon and St. Peter sit in a bar in the Great Hereafter discussing, among other things, Vonneguts 1985 novel Galapagos.Isaac: [Looking at Peter] What are you laughing about?Peter: You know. [laughing]Isaac: Its still funny, after all these centuries, that me, a self described atheist and humanist, finds himself here in the Great Hereafter?Peter: Yep, still funny.Theodore: Well, its like Kurts book Galapagos, where Kilgore Trouts son Leon is a ghost and
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