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...most likely be amused, but more confused, by the book, and even Vonnegut veterans may be caught off guard if they are expecting anything resembling a conventional story. The kind of wildly imaginative plotline that characterized his earlier and best-known satirical novels (such as the absurd, apocalyptic masterpiece, Cat's Cradle makes no appearance here. Fimequake is not so much wildly imaginative as wildly cantankerous, not so much a great read as a great rant...
...Pall Malls. By refusing to take much of anything too seriously, the book manages to avoid drowning in its own Vonnegutia or becoming The World According To Kurt (or, even worse, some sort of humanist Dianetics). Popping up all over the book, absurd little litanies such as "something the cat drug in" (what people, especially scientists, like to make each other feel like) or "a dog's breakfast" (Kilgore Trout's expression for the human brain) establish a familiarity that helps the reader adjust to the author's inexhaustible outrage at the evils of the modern world...
...give my whole life's work a B," he concluded in his talk at the Brattle, "which is better than I ever got in college."Photo courtesy of G.P. Putnam's SonsWho's the cat who won't back out when there's rationality all about? Kurt...
...surreal highlight of the evening was not Da Brat's prancing around in gladiator regalia, Marilyn Manson's satanic peep show or the Spice Girls' attempt at harmonization. It was when Busta Rhymes commandeered the stage accompanied by a very awkward looking Martha Stewart. Flashing his trademark Cheshire cat grin to the audience and stepping up to the mic with free-style gems, Rhymes made a contrived awards show moment into something genuinely memorable and exciting. He proved himself once again to be a stand-out entertainer, even among other grandstanders...
There are two items which need to be corrected by sticker. The cover of Princeton Review's book Cracking the GMAT CAT 1998 Edition with CD ROM trumpets-in three places-that the CD ROM contains four complete computer adapted practice tests. In reality, the book contains only one test...