Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)
"Galapagos" takes the reader 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. Here, America's master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry -- and all that is worth saving.
"Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain... "Galapagos" is a madcap genealogical adventure." -- "The New York Times Book Review"
. "Beautiful.... Provocative, arresting reading." -- "USA Today"
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The thing I admire about Vonnegut is his ability to take huge concepts—life, death, war, trauma, human audacity, love, greed, and so on—and boil them down so simply that you realize just how ridiculous and surreal the human condition is.
While I struggle to read omniscient pov, having the omniscient narrator be a named character (a ghost who has been studying humans for a million years), made this reading experience much better. This was an interesting read, a little melancholy, a little nihilistic, but uplifting in that it reminds you to stop taking things so damn seriously.
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