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A Series of Accidents #18

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Content warning for mention of suicide and other depressing things. Fates Worse Than Death was Vonnegut’s third … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #18

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A Series of Accidents #17: Hocus Pocus

October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Vonnegut biographer Charles J. Shields describes Hocus Pocus as the author’s most depressive novel, and that is … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #17: Hocus Pocus

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A Series of Accidents #16: Bluebeard

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. I had thought I had posted this earlier, but apparently it became unstuck in time (complete with … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #16: Bluebeard

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A Series of Accidents #15: Galapagos

April 21, 2022September 30, 2022 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Note that there are some mentions of sexual assault and suicide in this one. Galapagos is an … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #15: Galapagos

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A Series of Accidents #14: Deadeye Dick

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. One of the benefit of reading an author’s work chronologically is that you start to notice trends, … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #14: Deadeye Dick

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A Series of Accidents #13: Palm Sunday

December 16, 2021December 16, 2021 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Palm Sunday is the closest thing to an autobiography Kurt Vonnegut ever wrote. He describes it as … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #13: Palm Sunday

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A Series of Accidents #12: Jailbird

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Jailbird is in many ways an uncharacteristic Vonnegut novel. There are no elements of science-fiction or fantasy, … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #12: Jailbird

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A Series of Accidents #11: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Kurt Vonnegut describes Slapstick in his introduction as the most autobiographical novel he would likely ever write. … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #11: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More

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A Series of Accidents #10: Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Following the success of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut was becoming a full-fledged literary … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #10: Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

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A Series of Accidents #9: Breakfast of Champions

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 robhutton89

I reflect on a tortured, metafictional novel about authorship, schizophrenia and buttholes. Continue reading A Series of Accidents #9: Breakfast of Champions

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A Series of Accidents #8: Happy Birthday, Wanda June

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the best known of Vonnegut’s generally … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #8: Happy Birthday, Wanda June

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A Series of Accidents #7: Slaughterhouse-Five

August 28, 2020August 29, 2020 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a chronological read-through of the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can check out earlier articles in the series here. Slaughterhouse-Five begins with a true story. It all happened, Vonnegut tells us, more or less. He … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #7: Slaughterhouse-Five

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A Series of Accidents #6: Welcome to the Monkey House

March 30, 2020 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a series about the books of Kurt Vonnegut, examined in order of publication. Welcome to the Monkey House opens on a strangely apologetic note. In his preface, Kurt Vonnegut notes that whereas he wrote his … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #6: Welcome to the Monkey House

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A Series of Accidents #5: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

February 12, 2020 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is an ongoing project about the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can read previous entries here. In the chronology of Vonnegut novels, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, sits nestled uncomfortably between the author’s two most famous … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #5: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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A Series of Accidents #4: Cat’s Cradle

December 17, 2019 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is an ongoing project about the books of Kurt Vonnegut. Cat’s Cradle was the first Kurt Vonnegut book I read. I encountered it in a university class about apocalyptic science fiction, taught by a wiry Jewish … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #4: Cat’s Cradle

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A Series of Accidents #3: Mother Night

November 4, 2019November 6, 2019 robhutton89

  A Series of Accidents is a series examining the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can read the previous entry, on The Sirens of Titan, here. Mother Night is Kurt Vonnegut’s first great novel. It is also, not coincidentally, the … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #3: Mother Night

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A Series of Accidents #2: The Sirens of Titan

October 4, 2019October 12, 2019 robhutton89

A Series of Accidents is a series examining the books of Kurt Vonnegut. You can read the first entry, on Player Piano, here The Sirens of Titan is the first Kurt Vonnegut novel that really feels like a Vonnegut novel, if … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #2: The Sirens of Titan

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A Series of Accidents #1: Player Piano

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 robhutton89

This is a series about the works of Kurt Vonnegut. I’ll be reading through Vonnegut’s entire bibliography in chronological order and writing about it. Welcome! In 1947, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. began the first and only corporate job of his life. … Continue reading A Series of Accidents #1: Player Piano

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