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If This Isn't Nice What Is?, (Much) Expanded Second Edition: the Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live by Online 9xVar (Free download) If This Isn't Nice What Is?, (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By Online [9xVar.ebook] If This Isn't Nice What Is?, (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By Pdf Free Kurt Vonnegut DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub #147588 in Books imusti 2016-04-26 2016-04-26Format: Deckle EdgeOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.28 x .85 x 5.98l, 1.25 #File Name: 1609806972208 pagesSeven Stories Press | File size: 70.Mb Kurt Vonnegut : If This Isn't Nice What Is?, (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised If This Isn't Nice What Is?, (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. just like all graduation speeches tend to beBy KarlyIt is what you think it's gonna be. A lot of the speeches are really similar, just like all graduation speeches tend to be. It's definitely not a book you should read cover to cover, but I found it enjoyable nonetheless.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thoughtful Vonnegut, sharing some of his best words.By A SniderThis is a good read for people who take seriously and reflectively their responsibility as citizens of a nation, of a community, and even, as a church.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Sadly underwhelmed.By K8A little disappointed. It's a lot of repeated quotes and recurring ideas. I don't know why I would have expected any different. Considering that no one writes speeches like chapters in a novel, back to back. It was silly of me to expect differently. But I see this book as a win for simply having these documents archived in a book in my library now. Best known as one of Americarsquo;s most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated from college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had occasion to savor on his own behalf. ldquo;But about my Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now,rdquo; Vonnegut, an avowed Humanist, would say sometimes in a graduation speech, ldquo;one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. We could be drinking lemonade in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, lsquo;If this isnrsquo;t nice, what is?rsquo;rdquo; If This Isnrsquo;t Nice, What Is? includes eleven speeches and four pieces of journalism on related themes. Six of the fifteen are new to the second editionmdash;on topics as wide-ranging as why it is that Kurt Vonnegutrsquo;s dog loves people more than Kurt Vonnegut does, and what it feels like to be the most censored writer in Americamdash;and much, much more. In each of these talks and short essays, Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in thatrsquo;s funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so. About the AuthorKurt Vonnegut (1922ndash;2007) was among the very few grandmasters of late-twentieth-century American letters, one without whom the very term ldquo;American literaturerdquo; would mean much less than it does now. Vonnegutrsquo;s other books from Seven Stories Press include his last major bestseller A Man Without a Country, as well as God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God. In addition to these books, Seven Stories also publishes Kurtrsquo;s son Mark Vonnegutrsquo;s bestselling memoir, Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, and Gregory D. Sumnerrsquo;s history of Vonnegutrsquo;s fourteen novels, Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegutrsquo;s Life and Novels. A longtime friend of Kurt Vonnegutrsquo;s, Dan Wakefield edited and introduced Kurt Vonnegut: Letters. Wakefield is the author of the memoirs New York in the Fifties and Returning: A Spiritual Journey. His novel, Going All the Way, was made into a movie starring Ben Affleck. Wakefield also created the NBC prime-time series, James at 15. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. 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