Look at the Birdie

Kurt Vonnegut has always been one of my favorite authors; he was one of the very first writers that was able to change the way I think. I had always loved books, but after my first encounter with KV in high school, I amazingly realized what a novel could actually do. But it's more than than that. Vo......more

THIS IS AMAZING. Put that on repeat 13 more times - for all the 14 short stories in this compilation. Like I said in my only status update while reading this, it seems unbelievable that these stories, written in the early part of Vonnegut's career, never saw the light of day until two years after his......more

Kurt Vonnegut benim için bir noktada her şeydir. "Neden yaşıyorum" sorusunu onun sayesinde sordum kendime ve sormaya da devam ediyorum. Neyse. Kuşa Bak'a benden elbette beş yıldız. Kurt Vonnegut'un yazdığı her metin, yaptığı her iş "çok şey"dir çünkü. Ama bu baskı, bu çeviri hakkında söylemeden edem......more

Reading an author’s posthumous, previously unpublished work never sits completely right for me. In almost any forward of a deceased author’s “uncovered work” you can find someone vouching for the guy (or gal) as being a real stickler for editing, a tireless craftsman, someone who always wanted to ge......more