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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
- Advice for the Young
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers and listeners of all ages. At times hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and deeply serious, these reflections are ideal for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their "long-delayed puberty ceremony".
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Confusing!
- By Caroline S. on 12-04-22
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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
- Advice for the Young
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-05-13
- Language: English
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature, with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Kurt Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.
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Perhaps it just wasn't for me
- By Kieran Murphy on 01-04-18
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-08-09
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: James Franco
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Did I Enjoy it or Experience it?
- By Simon on 05-06-17
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- Narrated by: James Franco
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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Pity the Reader
- On Writing with Style
- By: Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote having to do with the writing art and craft, altogether a healing, a nourishing expedition.
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Envy The Reader And Pity This Speaker!
- By Typogreeter on 24-02-24
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Pity the Reader
- On Writing with Style
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Sinbad
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.
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Sinbad
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 27-09-16
- Language: English
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Bluebeard
- The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.
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One of Kurt’s best.
- By Priestley on 18-11-21
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Bluebeard
- The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Bagombo Snuff Box
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Alexander Marshall
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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From the author of such classics as Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle comes this collection of unabridged short fiction originally published in some of America's most popular magazines of the 1950s and 60s. Vonnegut himself selected his best early works for this collection, and he reads the preface and afterword to boot!
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Abridged
- By Gypsyboy on 16-07-24
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Bagombo Snuff Box
- Narrated by: Alexander Marshall
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-12-99
- Language: English
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The Sirens of Titan
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation...
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A nine hour long joke
- By Pongo Narrates on 14-06-21
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The Sirens of Titan
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-08-09
- Language: English
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Deadeye Dick
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb - Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe...and who we say we are.
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Listened to
- By Dean on 29-04-23
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Deadeye Dick
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Mother Night
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Kurt Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of grey with a verdict that will haunt us all. Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense.
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German anyone???
- By PAOLA on 22-05-14
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Mother Night
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-08-09
- Language: English
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Player Piano
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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Uncanny prediction of today's world of automation.
- By Matthew on 18-09-16
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Player Piano
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-08-09
- Language: English
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Breakfast of Champions
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: John Malkovich
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
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A unique and biting wit
- By Kaggy on 28-06-18
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Breakfast of Champions
- Narrated by: John Malkovich
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Hocus Pocus
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
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Hocus Pocus
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Not science fiction as we know it.
- By Wras on 21-04-17
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- Narrated by: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, Tony Roberts, Dylan Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-05-06
- Language: English
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Jailbird
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend.
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Interesting perspective still relevant today
- By oliver on 03-07-21
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Jailbird
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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Galapagos
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Galapagos takes the listener 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 Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new, and totally different, human race.
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Brilliant
- By Stuart on 14-02-12
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Galapagos
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-08-09
- Language: English
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Cat's Cradle
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
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Laughter and Despair
- By Eugene on 16-12-12
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Cat's Cradle
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-10-07
- Language: English
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Slice of Life
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 58 mins
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The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse, when she saw a sign on the door - a crude sign in pencil, on a ragged sheet of paper. "Collapse of Western Civilization - Dr. Norbert Beilstein," it said. "Visitors welcome."
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Slice of Life
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 27-09-16
- Language: English
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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With cutting wit, fierce conviction, and surprising empathy, Vonnegut explores a diverse range of topics including society, politics, sex, literature, and mortality. Fans who believe they've read all of Vonnegut's work will be delighted to find the author speaking frankly about timely and relevant new topics - with an amusing yet insightful style that's instantly recognizable.
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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We Are What We Pretend to Be
- The First and Last Works
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Colin Hanks, Oliver Wyman, Suzanne Toren
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.
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The excellence perpetuates
- By Tom O'Rourke on 14-11-21
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We Are What We Pretend to Be
- The First and Last Works
- Narrated by: Colin Hanks, Oliver Wyman, Suzanne Toren
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-10-12
- Language: English
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