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title: "Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories Kindle Edition"
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# Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories Kindle Edition

**Brand:** kurt vonnegut
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- **What is this?** Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories Kindle Edition by kurt vonnegut
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## Customer Reviews

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    (TW) Vonnegut Glorifies Rape
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2021*

TW: rapeI have been a fan of Vonnegut for a long time and have adored many of his works including Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Player Piano, and The Sirens of Titan. However, Welcome to the Monkey House is seriously disappointing. In the titular short story, Vonnegut is glorifying corrective rape. I've seen some folks saying that it's because of the time it was written and that he's not actually glorifying rape. These takes only contribute to rape culture. The story was literally first published in PLAYBOY.Vonnegut never even uses the term rape, he instead refers to it as "deflowering," despite the fact that the female protagonist literally is held down by eight people with a gun pointed to her head. He writes about rape victims being grateful in the end. The rapist says that he wished it could be done in another way and that he doesn't enjoy it, but that doesn't make him into a hero, it's simply an excuse. Billy is still a rapist, regardless of his intentions. Vonnegut writes about rape as if it's liberating for women, that women secretly want to be raped. He never condemns Billy's actions and instead describes him as having a shy smile and such, as if we are supposed to like Billy. Also, Billy only rapes women despite men also being given the same pills that eliminate sexual desire.I get that Vonnegut's writing is not meant for the faint of heart, but this is different from crass humor. It's extremely messed up to give Vonnegut a pass for this as he was someone who was able to critique war and capitalism and he should be able to recognize that rape is not okay either.

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    Swing and a miss for Vonnegut
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2020*

Came into this purchase knowing two things, that Vonnegut had a reputation for quality work and the Harrison Bergeron story that I read in high school lit was really good.  Since "monkey house" was a fun sounding title I bought it, ignoring the book buying rule to never buy a book where the author's name is the same size or larger than the actual title.  The title story "Welcome to the monkey house" has a protagonist that kidnaps and rapes a woman.  There are cheesy boy meets girl stories.  Faddish and dated "population bomb" mongering.  It would be one star except for some interesting revelations of the post-WWII psyche that were accidental to the stories.  Vonnegut must have written something much better to earn the reputation.  I wish I knew what it was.

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    The book is great, but the Kindle Edition, specifically, is terrible
  

*by O***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2012*

Please note that my rating is about the quality of the Kindle edition, not the quality of Vonnegut's writing.On the one hand, the short stories are wonderful and showcase some of Vonnegut's earlier writing. On the other hand, the Kindle edition would likely embarrass any author, and particularly one whose precision of language was equal to Kurt Vonnegut's. Specifically, the book appears to have been created by scanning a hard copy and then using optical character recognition (OCR) software to convert the images to letters, without making an effort to even so much as electronically verify that the OCR got it right (e.g. even a Word grammar checker would have turned up most of the obvious mistakes).  This results in an almost verbatim rendering of the original, but not quite.  In the Kindle version it is quite jarring to find, for example, the word "mat" appearing nonsensically in the middle of some sentences where the word "that" was plainly intended.  Two examples: "It was in this news mat Nancy perceived a glint of hope" or "Why, honey bunch, they call mat truth serum." Mostly, "that" shows up correctly, but not always. Perhaps the most obnoxious example is in the short story "Deer in the Works" where a character's name is first given as "Lou Flammer" then inexplicably switches for a few pages to "Lou Hammer" and then switches back to last name "Flammer" again.  Vonnegut doesn't make those sorts of mistakes.  Kindle does, and it is a shame to do it to a writer of such ability.  Nevertheless, what Vonnegut writes in these short stories are entertaining, thought provoking, disturbing, and somewhat of a time capsule for the mindset of America in the 1950s and early 60s. My only suggestion is to buy a hard copy version and read what Vonnegut actually wrote, instead.

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