Title: FAR FROM BRILLIANT
Product review: WHAT CAN I SAY? IT'S JUST NOT FRESH ANY MORE. TIMEQUAKE ANNOYED ME, THOUGH NOT FOR THE SAME REASONS AS SOME OF THE OTHER REVIEWERS.NO, THE PROBLEM I SAW WAS THAT VONNEGUT SEEMED CONTENT TO REPEAT, LINE FOR LINE, THE IDEAS PRESENTED IN HIS 1992 BIO "FATES WORSE THAN DEATH." IT'S ONE THING TO ADD PERSONAL MEMOIRS TO ONE'S WORK(LIKE MANY OTHER REVIEWERS, I THOUGHT "BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS WAS BRILLIANT), BUT QUITE ANOTHER TO PLAGIARIZE ONESSELF TO FILL DEAD SPACE WHEN HAVING DIFFICULTY THINKING UP NEW FICTIONAL IDEAS.I WANTED THIS BOOK TO BE BRILLIANT, AND PERHAPS MY HIGH HOPES DIDN'T ALLOW ME THE ENJOYMENT I WOULD HAVE HAD OTHERWISE. REGARDLESS, I STILL HAVE TO RANK THIS ONE AMONG VONNEGUT'S WORST EFFORTS, RIGHT DOWN THERE WITH "DEADEYE DICK" AND "JAILBIRD" IN HIS LATE 70'S/EARLY 80'S DOWNTURN. DO NOT BUY TIMEQUAKE UNLESS YOU'RE A HARDCORE FAN.
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