First and foremost, I do believe that God Bless You Mr. Rosewater is and always will be your finest masterpiece. Your use of symbolism and metaphor is awe aspiring. I could speak for hours on your strategic use of sarcasm and satire, also. I must say I enjoyed God Bless You Mr. Rosewater even more that Cat's Cradle. With your precision methods of integrating both fact and outrageous fiction I, as a reader, finished the novel with a sense of satisfaction and an insatiable hunger for more "Vonnegut." Thank you Mr. Vonnegut, I now consider you to be the single man that rules my existence as both a political thinker, and as a modern reader. .
Putting nothing but words on drab pages doesn't sound like a noble deed. Yet I find myself yearning for more; carnivorously eating pages as fast as I possibly can. I am a very particular reader, in the sense that I have found most books to be drab and boring. It is rare that I find novels that feed my insatiable hunger for political-satire. You, indeed, Mr. Vonnegut are measured to the great political satirist of the past and present: Twain, Orwell, and, of course, God.
I enjoyed this selection of your writing for a number of reasons, The plot is one that is unmatched. Only a master in control of all his tools can create a masterpiece, and your tools are metaphor, pen and paper. It takes a huge amount of skill to effectively pen a novel based on a corporation and its drunken fallout over the generations. Yet you do it in such an elegant way that it seems coherent and crisp. You set your novel in a situation that seems fictional but actually could or did happen. You write like a whip, and once the literary whip is swung, it will snap sooner or later. Sooner, more often than later. .
The introduction of Norman Mushari, a reporter trying to drag out the secret practices of the Rosewater Corporation, added yet again another perspective other that from the miscellaneous letters and accounts in the book.
