Galápagos

Galápagos

1985 • 338 pages

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Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands.


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I was pretty bored while I was reading this. There was any interesting character development and the plot was dull. Vonnegut's writing was as witty as expected, but it didn't make up for the lack of content.

February 24, 2017

I wanted to like this book, but it just moved soooo sloooow. I made it about a third of the way through, and they are still in the damn hotel! Most of it is just forshadowing, either of what will happen to these specific people or of what will happen to the human race a million years in the future.

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