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mk  ·  4219 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kurt Vonnegut's review of a novel by Joseph Heller.

    I say that this is the most memorable, and therefore the most permanent variation on a familiar theme, in that it says baldly what the other variations only implied, what the other variations tried with desperate sentimentality not to imply: That many lives, judged by the standards of the people who live them, are simply not worth living.

Something Happened is a crushing book. It is an unrelentless, crushing book. It left a shadow in my mind. Like LSD, you either have or you haven't, and you don't know which is better.