all monsters and dust

21.10.05

when one is expecting historical fiction

There was a bit of an blog meme a while back about finding the worst reviews on amazon.com of your favourite books. Today at The Morning News, Matthew Baldwin has collected some of the worst reviews of some of the books from Time Magazine's recent list of the 100 best books since 1923. (You know how I love lists.) Some of my all-time favourite books happen to be on this list, including:

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Author: Kurt Vonnegut

"In the novel, they often speak of a planet called Tralfamadore, where he was displayed in a zoo with a former movie star by the name of Montana Wildhack. I thought that the very concept of a man who was kidnapped by aliens was truly unbelievable and a tad ludicrous. I did not find the idea of aliens kidnapping a human and putting them in a zoo very plausible. While some of the Tralfamadorians' concept of death and living in a moment would be comforting for a war veteran, I found it relatively odd. I do not believe that an alien can kidnap someone and house them in a zoo for years at a time, while it is only a microsecond on earth. I also do not believe that a person has seven parents."

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