The central event of the book, the timequake itself, was the moment (in the near future, as it happens) when time slipped back 10 years and everybody relived the same 10 years without any free will being involved. This allowed Vonnegut to explore the meaning and responsibilities of freewill - and the book suggests, maybe, that too many people in the world spend much of their time on autopilot.
Recommended.
Seán 6/12/98
Gill started this but didn't finish it as she found it too confusing to
persevere with.
Gill 21/3/99
Another easy read. The premise of the book is that the author wrote a book called ‘Timequake’, didn’t like it and therefore decided to cut it and pad it out with other bits and pieces and aphorisms. Andrew didn’t really like this book.
Seán felt the book was more about the author than anything else, liked it.
Gill was put off by the style - didn’t like the use of two authors.
Andrew 11/4/99
Jean wasn't very impressed, and was very disappointed. Saw no point to the
book - it was bitty and scatty - looked like an author getting on in years
who decided to raid his card index and stick everything he found together;
some of the stuff should have stayed in the box.
Jean 13/6/99