1965 / Audiobook / 218 pages / USA
***
Vonnegut's feel-good novel, despite the customary tragedy and pervading cynicism, it was quite a pleasant, knowingly naive fable, but I preferred the summaries of bad Kilgore Trout books along the way.
1972 / Audobook / 288 pages / USA
***
The old timer shows the New Wave he's still relevant with this fresh take on alternate universes, alternative energy and the end times with creatively alien aliens. The hard chem-fi's too rich for my wimpy blood, but I admired its total rejection of the comfort zone.
Donald Burrows, Handel: Messiah
1991 / Ebook / 140 pages / UK**
Despite finding the archaic warbling falsetto inherently comical, I made it longer into the feature-length musical than I expected. This companion is less divinely inspired, being primarily concerned with setting the record straight about edits and performances over the 250-year history and filling out the page count by reprinting the lyrics. It only gets a point for bringing up the interesting Life of Brian-style controversy where a bunch of loud idiots preemptively decided Handel was a very naughty boy.
Arthur C. Clarke, The Hammer of God
1993 / Audiobook / 226 pages / UK****
"Almost a millisecond of Arri Tech computer time had been devoted to the problem."
His last solo novel before he started licensing synopses to protogees, the world-building orientation that comprises the first two thirds of the novel before the compulsory drama shows that he never lost his enthusiasm for dreaming the utopia, he only learned to moderate his predictions slightly. We'll see in 2110.
His last solo novel before he started licensing synopses to protogees, the world-building orientation that comprises the first two thirds of the novel before the compulsory drama shows that he never lost his enthusiasm for dreaming the utopia, he only learned to moderate his predictions slightly. We'll see in 2110.
2011 / Ebook / 176 pages / USA
**
This set of over-the-top cover songs live from church was apparently pretty important, but the story is told as uninterestingly as possible.
