Lawrence's Staff Picks


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Book cover for "Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!"
Star rating for Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world
Book cover for "Cat's cradle"
Star rating for Cat's cradle
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Book cover for "God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls before swine"
Star rating for God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls before swine
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" is a comic masterpiece. Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature...with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. 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.
Book cover for "Mother night"
Star rating for Mother night
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
Truth and justice are blurred when American spy Howard Campbell is tried in Israel as a Nazi war criminal after World War II.
Book cover for "Player piano"
Star rating for Player piano
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.
Book cover for "The sirens of Titan"
Star rating for The sirens of Titan
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Malachi Constant, "the richest man in America," gives up his indulgent lifestyle to follow an urgent calling to probe the depths of space. He participates in a Martian invasion of Earth, mates with the wife of an astronaut adrift on the tides of time, and follows the lure of the "Sirens of Titan."
Book cover for "Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade"
Star rating for Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time" after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.

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Book cover for "Welcome to the monkey house"
Star rating for Welcome to the monkey house
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Tender stories of love, incisive essays on human greed and misery, and imaginative tales of futuristic happenings reveal Vonnegut's versatility and vision.