Book Review: Galápagos

Unlike 99 percent of what's in print today, we'll still be reading Kurt Vonnegut in a hundred years. So, strangely, the victory is his. His novels, which are quirky mixes of satire, science fiction and dark comedy, are not the easiest to understand and love. It takes effort to appreciate Vonnegut, and maybe that's the reason for his success. One of my favorites is Galápagos, one of his later novels that continues to resonate. For starters, this "historical" novel shifts back and forth in time, and is told by a long dead ghost, Leon Trotsky Trout. In Galápagos, the only survivors of a worldwide reproductive catastrophe and financial crisis (sound familiar?) are a small band of wackos shipwrecked on Santa Rosalía in the Galápagos Islands. There, through de-evolution, they mutate back into fish with small brains. Hey, what can I say? It's classic Vonnegut.

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