Armageddon In Retrospect
- March 13th, 2009
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Recently read Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut.
What could the final book Vonnegut ever publishes is a mixed bag of newer and some of Vonnegut’s oldest, previously unpublished, material. The newer work, including a hilarious speech, has the same Vonnegut style and charm as his excellent Timequake and A Man Without A Country. The older works, mostly fictional and non-fictional recollections of his time in World War II are a mixed bag. They are all good, no doubt, and very sadly intense in their nature, but a lot of it is very raw and not quite the Vonnegut we would come to know later. This isn’t to say Armageddon In Retrospect isn’t worth checking out, just that some of it is sub par for my very high expectations.
I read this via the audio book. Rip Torn does a wonderful reading of the book. This is a good example of an audio reading really emphasizing the better qualities of the writing.
