We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists: "When Vonnegut passed away in 2007, he left his last novel unfinished. Entitled If God Were Alive Today, this last work is a brutal satire on societal ignorance and carefree denial of the world’s major problems. Protagonist Gil Berman is a middle-aged college lecturer and self-declared stand-up comedian who enjoys cracking jokes in front of a college audience while societal dependence on fossil fuels has led to the apocalypse. Described by Vonnegut as, “the stand-up comedian on Doomsday,” Gil is a character formed from Vonnegut’s own rich experiences living in a reality Vonnegut himself considered inevitable."



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