This black comedy is really enjoyable. Each chapter is only a few pages which I really like since I read in short spurts. The plot goes from strength to strength and the fake religion aspect is great fun. The only improvement I would like is essentially more book.

The book more or less ends when the world ends, a fun sequel of life after the freeze would be fun

 

On the second read I’m sticking with 4 stars. It’s still a great fun read and the short chapters really make it easy to get through. I think I appreciated some of the characters more on the second time through and although my desire for a sequel remains, I understand it would be beyond the purpose of the novel. The dark comedy is just brilliant, and I can’t praise that factor enough, when someone stands over a land covered with corpses dying of the plague and says to his son giggling “All this one day will be yours” you can’t help but love it. I really need to read the rest of Vonnegut’s work.