toochicforsoup's reviews
116 reviews

Biased

The gratuitous straight sex was a little much for me but I found I liked it 

Not my favorite collection of his particularly in the beginning, however many of these pieces I greatly enjoyed. My favorite was Anniversary. 

I really was underwhelmed by this collection. About 20% of the poems were extremely poignant, especially those about racism. I wish the collection would have been a more focused chapbook.
The so-called love poems were not even close to compelling and I found many cliche phrases that felt unoriginal or not reworked enough to feel new and original.

Not my favorite Shakespeare. Didn’t feel connected to any of the characters.

I got the gist of it

Can’t find something to dislike about this book.
It seems to me written in the sincerest interest of exploring the life of Kurt Vonnegut by a dear friend. The book, written in second person, is a journey through the writer’s life. I imagined myself as Kurt, in old age or perhaps in some purgatorial state, hearing my life described back to me in the most tender and considerate way, through both the epistemological and plain chronicling. 
I encourage anyone with an interest in the life of the quintessential American writer to read this, if not to understand his life, to imagine what it may be like to be a writer through someone who has first hand experienced of the most destructive times in history. Especially insightful given the state of the world today.

Obviously amazing, but I just didn’t enjoy this title as much as I have her others.