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Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. He was born to a rich family, has more money than he could ever spend on his
own, and yet all he wants to do is help the poor. He's got the time these days, and he might learn a thing or two from Eliot Rosewater, the idiot
manchild inheritor of millions from a powerful politically connected father Want to Read saving. And Eliot knows a bit more than Mitt about
compassion, even though he too was born on the banks of the Money River and slurped from that mighty river to his heart's content. Hell, their
money grows on its own without them having to do a thing to it. An Autobiographyxv, pp. However, that is true, and it is this that gives lawyers a
really bad name. About About Scribd Press Our blog Join our team! Upload Sign in Join close user settings menu Options. Light rubbing wear to
cover, spine and page edges. I love that the protagonist Eliot Rosewater is a kind of lovable, asexual loser hippie idealist who thinks love will cure
capitalism, etc I was uncomfortable watching Mr. Also remove everything in this list from your library. The philanthropist was taking from the
greedy and giving to the greedy. I love the huge variety of topics and tools available for comprehensive research. Also uninteresting was the bland
midwestern town of Rosewater: God bless you, Mr. As a story, Vonnegut is his usual hilarious self, letting his character as narrator drop several
times and revealing personal asides. Be the first to ask a question about God Bless You, Mr. It deals with the issues of wealth distribution, guilt,
family patterns, inequality, greed, mental health, uselessness and heartlessness, while celebrating absurd plots, dark humour and stories within
stories. The premise, which, relevant as it might still be today - especially to North Americans - is also a little tired, and can be, well, summed up in
a sentence or two as I just did. Be that as it may, here's a book for Mitt Romney to put on his "to read" list. It is in this novel that Rosewater
wanders into a science fiction conference--an actual annual event in Milford, Pennsylvania--and at the motel delivers his famous monologue
evoked by science fiction writers and critics for almost half a century: We laugh in self-defense. But the real story here is that throughout his
harrowing experience his sense of humor let him see the humanity of what he was going through, and his gift of language let him describe it in such a
moving way that others could begin to imagine both its utter ordinariness as well as the madness we all share. In that other book, Rosewater comes
across as a cynic, supplying meaningless platitudes. The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy,
and follies of the flesh we are all heir to. The May Book of the Month is Farmer Beau's Farm by Kathleen Geiger. Rosewater or, Pearls Before
Swine Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Lawyers and Money 2 November There are a number of Vonnegut books that I wish to read again, but this is not one
of them. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Are you sure you want to continue? Like the vast majority of his
collections, it has never been out of print. I am amazed, how fresh and on time this whole Vonnegut's rant on riches feels today. Trout, modeled
according to Vonnegut on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon with whom Vonnegut had an occasional relationship is a desperate,
impoverished but visionary hack writer who functions for Eliot Rosewater as both conscience and horrid example. In fact what can 'best' mean
when it is merely the superlative for an infinite number of quite different possible 'goods'?