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Title	:	Hocus Pocus
Author	:	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 322 pages
Published	:	November 1997 by Berkley Books (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Science Fiction. Literature

Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Paperback | Pages: 322 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 29339 Users | 1097 Reviews

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Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He's a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that's neither here no there. Because at Tarkington College—where he teaches—the excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And its all Eugene's fault.

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Original Title:	Hocus Pocus
ISBN:	0425161293 (ISBN13: 9780425161296)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York State(United States)

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Vonnegut is irreverent! And while I have to say his irreverence Is very much in line with my attitude, page after page after page of it like the Ratatat Tat of a machine gun was a bit much even for me. The paragraphs were staccato throughout the book. Thank goodness the book is short and it was over before it could wear me completely out. The fact that I listened to it in the Audible format was a benefit.

I love Kurt Vonnegut. It would be difficult to overstate how formative Cat's Cradle was for me. I got a major kick out of Slaughterhouse Five.But this book was missing everything that made those great. There's no winking wisdom behind the satircal bitterness. No blindingly fresh observations from the mouths of fools and idiots. There's no fun.If you took all the wit and imagination and irony and subtlety out of Slaughterhouse Five, you'd end up with this. I can see why someone would want to



"The excrement has hit the air-conditioning, big time."While I found Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus interesting, this might well be my least favorite Vonnegut book. Our protagonist, Eugene Debs Hartke is named for the political activitist, Eugene Debs, and anti-war Senator, Vance Hartke. Debs most famous quote, while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free appears numerous times in the book. As he

My favorite of Vonnegut's lesser known works. Has the same wit exemplified in Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. I think a big part of why I like this one so much is the numerology games he plays throughout. (I do love me some numbers). The choppy style takes a little bit to get used to (the self aware first person voice supposedly only had scraps of paper of divergent sizes to write on) but it pays off once you get used to it. Vonnegut has always been a master at seamlessly amalgamating

Like Vonnegut, I share a deep admiration for Eugene Victor Debs. Like Vonnegut, I probably idolize the man. The contrast between Hartke, the protagonist, and Debs, his namesake, is significant and Hartke knows it.

I can't say that this is one of Kurt Vonnegut's best works. To be honest, it's rather more depressing than many of his other novels - and they're a rather depressing lot anyway! Unlike his Bluebeard, though, this book lacks a deeply moving and somehow uplifting ending. It lacks a sense of resolution...perhaps that's what Vonnegut intended. It probably is.But even so, Vonnegut retained his gifts as a writer. So although I found myself frequently feeling a little depressed by this book, I also