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Slaughterhouse-Five
A Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal 1969 novel, is widely regarded as one of the greatest anti-war books ever written. With its nonlinear narrative structure, dark humor, and blend of autobiography and science fiction, Slaughterhouse-Five was a critical and commercial success that cemented Vonnegut's place in the American literary canon.
Featured Article: 70+ Unforgettable Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut had an extremely productive career, penning everything from plays to short stories to full-length nonfiction. Drawing on his experiences of war, life, and love, Vonnegut’s powerful messages were delivered so creatively—and often quite satirically—ensuring that they stood the test of time. This assortment of Kurt Vonnegut quotes is just a glimpse of the gems found throughout the works of this great author.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: James Franco
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,583
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,483
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- By Keith on 11-20-15
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- Narrated by: James Franco
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-03-15
- Language: English
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Sinbad
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone....
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A masterpiece as usual.
- By Adayam mirsky on 10-16-25
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Sinbad
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 09-27-16
- Language: English
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The Sirens of Titan
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,973
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,326
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,329
The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Outstanding
- By Robert on 01-07-12
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The Sirens of Titan
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-13-09
- Language: English
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Breakfast of Champions
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: John Malkovich
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,449
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,001
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,992
Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kurt Was Right to Grade This a C
- By Dubi on 01-10-16
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Breakfast of Champions
- Narrated by: John Malkovich
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-23-15
- Language: English
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
This collection of Kurt Vonnegut's most rare and unexamined essays, speeches, fiction, and interviews offers fascinating insight into the mind of the iconic science fiction author....
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Vonnegut At His Best
- By Peter W. Kalnin on 12-09-23
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-03-15
- Language: English
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Cat's Cradle
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,240
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,469
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,467
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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KV at his best.
- By Robert on 06-22-12
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Cat's Cradle
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-30-07
- Language: English
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Fates Worse Than Death
- An Autobiographical Collage
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut is profound
- By Sarah on 02-03-20
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Fates Worse Than Death
- An Autobiographical Collage
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-03-15
- Language: English
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Jailbird
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 258
Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed....
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4 out of 5 stars
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a fool and his self respect are soon parted
- By Darwin8u on 11-18-16
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Jailbird
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-03-15
- Language: English
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Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2
- By: Fredric Brown, Ben Bova, Frank Herbert, and others
- Narrated by: Ben Hurst, Emmett Casey, Ran Allan Ricard, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 122
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The second collection of science-fiction tales by Jimcin includes 31 stories....
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Some of the best
- By Empowerment on 02-15-10
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Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2
- Narrated by: Ben Hurst, Emmett Casey, Ran Allan Ricard, Cindy Hardin Killavey, Kevin Killavey, Michelle Ford, Pat Bottino
- Series: Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-28-10
- Language: English
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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
- Advice for the Young
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,766
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,538
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,533
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time....
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Life advice from the ultimate cynic
- By Wayne on 12-05-18
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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
- Advice for the Young
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-07-13
- Language: English
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Player Piano
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,344
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,096
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,104
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Genuine 5-Stars
- By R.A. on 06-07-19
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Player Piano
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-11-09
- Language: English
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Pity the Reader
- On Writing with Style
- By: Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 97
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The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and listeners written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unlistenable
- By Grant Swalwell on 01-06-20
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Pity the Reader
- On Writing with Style
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-05-19
- Language: English
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Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 1
- By: Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Fritz Leiber, and others
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts, Ben Hurst, Cindy Hardin Killavey
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Story4 out of 5 stars 139
This first volume of Favorite Science Fiction Stories features "the best of the best" from the Golden Age of science fiction....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great selection
- By Empowerment on 09-05-09
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Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Jim Roberts, Ben Hurst, Cindy Hardin Killavey
- Series: Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-21-09
- Language: English
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Hocus Pocus
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 470
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Story4 out of 5 stars 412
Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Vonnegut Imitating Vonnegut
- By Joe Kraus on 08-06-18
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Hocus Pocus
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-23-15
- Language: English
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Dimension X
- Adventures in Time & Space
- By: Robert Heinlein, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Staats Cotsworth, Raymond Edward Johnson, Les Damon, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
A new crop of writers emerged from the dawning of the nuclear age, grappling with humankind's place in the universe....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The "Grand Daddy" of Radio Science Fiction
- By C. Orena on 02-20-16
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Dimension X
- Adventures in Time & Space
- Narrated by: Staats Cotsworth, Raymond Edward Johnson, Les Damon, Bill Lipton, Berry Kroeger, Jan Miner, Joan Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-11-14
- Language: English
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While Mortals Sleep
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
While Mortals Sleep is a collection of 16 short stories, written early in Vonnegut’s career, that further cements his status as an American literary icon....
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1 out of 5 stars
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old stories before he got to be the KV I've loved
- By Don Singletary on 10-29-11
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While Mortals Sleep
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-14-11
- Language: English
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Palm Sunday
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4 out of 5 stars 82
In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- By Anonymous on 11-17-20
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Palm Sunday
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-23-15
- Language: English
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Mother Night
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,387
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,008
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,008
American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal....
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5 out of 5 stars
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“We are what we pretend to be”
- By Robert on 09-04-12
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Mother Night
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-11-09
- Language: English
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,797
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,500
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,517
Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth.
- By Darwin8u on 03-27-14
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-11-09
- Language: English
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Look at the Birdie
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Christopher E. Welch
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
A must-have for readers everywhere, Look at the Birdie adds further insight into the author's body of work with a riveting collection of Vonnegut's previously unpublished short fiction....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great stories and performances to match
- By Jeff Lacy on 05-30-17
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Look at the Birdie
- Unpublished Short Fiction
- Narrated by: Christopher E. Welch
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-20-09
- Language: English
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