2BRO2B
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Opening Lines (Experimental)
Got a problem? Just pick up the phone.
It solved them all--and all the same way!
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Everything was perfectly swell.
There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars.
All diseases were conquered. So was old age.
Death, barring accidents, was an ...
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3/5
Reviewed by lizkies on Feb 22, 2010
ageless bodies, with (almost) all of time to live.
Science advances the body's potential, so that almost nothing natural happens any more. This story focuses on the grisly math of the concept, and what that means about population, birth, and death. (More or less, the story takes place in a maternity ward.) Also, an odd sort of conservationist idealism that seems somehow suspicious.
Similar themes to Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom (on DailyLit), and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series.
4/5 
Reviewed by Delisa on Feb 1, 2010
2BRO2B
I felt very uneasy, thinking about it ...
4/5
Reviewed by zorin48 on Sep 1, 2009
Problem Solving
Some problems, when solved, create bigger problems - better leave them as they are - unsolved.
5/5 
Reviewed by swebco on Apr 29, 2009
2BR02B
Excellent study of untenable trade-offs. Some will argue for freedom of choice and some will argue for control. I think the author reviews this very basic choice by extending the consequences of each choice to their painful extremes. No choice lives in a vacuum, every choice has consequences.
2/5 
Reviewed by Christiana on Apr 22, 2009
2BRP2B
Well written, I guess, but bleak and hopeless. After the initial shock, it's down hill the rest of the way. Just not my cup of tea, (or, should I say, "poison."
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Ratings for '2BRO2B' by Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
| alt31 | | 2009-07-03 | |
| anjali | | 2009-04-23 | |
| bekha16 | | 2009-05-19 | |
| books | | 2009-02-03 | |
| boookywooky | | 2009-03-21 | |
| Christiana | | Read review | 2009-04-22 |
| cresswga | | 2009-03-09 | |
| dazpiece | | 2009-01-28 | |
| defiant | | 2009-10-13 | |
| Delisa | | Read review | 2010-02-01 |
| etcrochet | | 2009-08-13 | |
| Gambitus | | 2009-06-19 | |
| hullswife | | Read review | 2009-03-04 |
| jscanlas | | 2009-11-03 | |
| kenzo | | Read review | 2009-02-12 |
| lizkies | | Read review | 2009-05-29 |
| Lolabean | | Read review | 2009-03-19 |
| nmcclellan | | 2008-12-28 | |
| originaloflaura | | Read review | 2009-03-23 |
| rsdoiel | | 2009-04-03 | |
| swebco | | Read review | 2009-04-29 |
| tristiseye | | 2008-10-23 | |
| wsimpson3144 | | 2009-06-24 | |
| x4xtazy | | 2010-04-02 | |
| yourethebook | | 2009-12-26 |
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