PLAYER PIANO

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  • Biting Commentary Worth Reading  

    Player Piano (Paperback)
    This book is getting a little long in the tooth, but it is worth reading silently. I can understand how it may be read (superficially) as a typical fifties / Star Trek 'Omigosh-the-machines-have-taken-us-over "novel. I do think, HOWEVER, did Vonnegut
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  • From a different perspective, mine.  

    Player Piano (Paperback)
    When Vonnegut wrote this novel, I was a young lad and lived in the same upstate village of Alplaus, NY. Kurt was a PR person for General Electric. And so Because of this he Became associated with GE scientists. When I first read player piano, I was a
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  • one of Vonnegut's best novels  

    Player Piano (Paperback)
    One of Vonnegut's best novels; Certainly his most traditionally narrative and coherent. In the glorious future, machines have freed you from most types of Labor, and the simplified categorization of people. Everyone is tested Scientifically for IQ, p
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  • Incredibly accurate prophecy of Future Society  

    Player Piano (Paperback)
    Written in the 1950's Just When people were starting to envision computerized machines (ie. Robots) Vonnegut presents a dark look at society divided between the priviledged class engineer did designs and runs industry and the passive dumb masses are
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