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	BookPage Fiction Review: Timequake
		"Timequake" interweaves memories of family, grumpy reflections about the human animal, ingenious short-story ideas and primeval jokes with parts of a novel, supposedly junked because Vonnegut couldn't make it work on its own, in which the reader is made a character.
		Like his drearier thoughts about the preposterous ironies of history and humankind's desire to destroy the planet, this intellectual frolicking is his goal, not the creation of fully rounded characters in a conventional novel.
		His tongue does not seem to be anywhere near his cheek when he talks again and again of past years of "writer's block." Here he is the composer pulling out the major themes of decades of work and weaving them into a sprawling, comprehensive farewell.
	www.bookpage.com /9709bp/fiction/timequake.html (416 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Timequake
		Timequake, as published, is a metafictional account of Vonnegut's life and attempts to write the original version of the novel.
		Through Timequake, he keeps track of a wide variety of siblings, uncles, children, wives and ex-wives, etc. It says a great deal about Vonnegut's view of family that he is close to his family and is also a successful writer while his alter ego, Kilgore Trout, is an unsuccessful author and has no family.
		While Timequake masquerades as a novel, it may, perhaps, be better viewed as a monologue in print.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/timequake.html (762 words)

	Timequake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Timequake is a semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
		In this concluding work in the novel form, Vonnegut uses the premise of a timequake (or repetition of actions) in which there is no free will.
		At the end, in 2001, the timequake ends and everyone regains control of their bodies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timequake (621 words)

	Timequake -- book review
		(which he refers to as Timequake One) describes a rerun in time of a decade's length, where people have to do exactly what they've done for the past ten years a second time, aware of what is happening but utterly incapable of doing things any differently.
		The real disaster of the timequake ocurrs when it is over on February 13th, 2001, when free will kicks in again.
		The population, so used to running on automatic pilot for ten years, is slow to respond to the sudden need for purposeful action.
	www.curledup.com /quake.htm (577 words)

	Amazon.com: Timequake: Books: Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap.
		In his typically bizarre style, Timequake is a really interesting read that raises some poignant questions about determinism and free will.
		He goes off on many a tangent, and the reader ends up learning more about Kurt's personal life rather than what the original book was supposed to be about.
	www.amazon.com /Timequake-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0399137378 (1467 words)

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