Collection: Political, Slice of Life, Dystopia. Contains violence, obscenity, and extremely disturbing situations. This was the first book I read by Kurt Vonnegut, my dad picked it up for me. I had already heard about while looking at a list of books regarding dystopian fiction (I tried to provide a link in this review but I'm afraid it didn't work). Welcome to the Monkey house only has two or three dystopian stories, but since it was written during the cold war even the stories which aren't about a dystopian society have it as a fairly relevant theme. The first real story (The actual first story is a description of Kurt’s home town) depicts a future where everyone is “equal”, and this is achieved by having handsome and beautiful people wear masks, strong people are forced to wear heavy weights, and smart people wear a radio that sits next to their ear and whenever they start forming a thought a sound blasts in their ear. Needless to say, I was immediately e...
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