Slapstick
What:
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Where:
All good bookstores
How much:
Around $20
Described as the closest he'll ever get to writing an autobiography, Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick looks at the luxuries of life and the luxuries that life rarely throws our way, amongst the absurdities of politics, the absurdities of life and death, grotesqueness, loneliness and loveliness..
All very tongue-in-cheek, the book is also very humorous if one can step back and take it for what it truly is. Just like slapstick comedy, it's not too funny when someone's hitting you, but stand back and it can be quite funny to watch it happening to someone else.
Reading Slapstick confirms our belief that this world is often so depressing, harsh and bleak, yet so much fun if participated in and not taken too seriously. Hi ho.
Format: Book
Motivation: Good with a whiskey in the bath
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