A review by unrealpunk
Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut

4.5

Very funny and thought provoking.  Standard Vonnegut in most respects, if a bit more haphazard than usual.  On the negative side, some things don't land quite right (e.g. Fu Manchu and his tiny compatriots), and some elements aren't developed as deeply as they could have been (e.g. the gravity thing).  And it's almost more of a novella than a full novel, with an ending that comes out of nowhere, like Vonnegut just decided he wanted to be finished with the book, resolution be damned.  But in clipping the ending like this he also manages to make it startlingly beautiful and poignant, and includes a five-line poem that is one of the highlights of his entire body of work.