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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

Advice for the Young

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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Scott Brick
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Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation.

As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers and listeners of all ages. At times hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and deeply serious, these reflections are ideal for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their "long-delayed puberty ceremony" - marking the passage from student to full-time adult.

This book makes the perfect gift for high school or college graduates - or for parents and grandparents who remember Vonnegut fondly and want to connect with him in a new context.

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Editorial reviews

This selection of commencement speeches from legendary author Kurt Vonnegut will prove a thoroughly comforting companion for recent graduates as they move out into the so-called real world and attempt to determine their own place within that often overwhelming realm.

Vonnegut's advice, dispensed at countless graduation ceremonies over the course of his life, is by turns moving and comical, indelibly stamped with his unique outlook on the world, and voice actors Kevin T. Collins and Scott Brick take great pains to capture his distinctive authorial tone in their performance. Vonnegut is sometimes sardonic, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes straightforward, but he is always empathetic, a fact well-reflected in Collins and Brick's thoughtful narration of this inspiring work.
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Hilarious, and the performance is perfect - you can really imagine Kurt Vonnegut talking to a room of graduates. Feels like the kind of book you can come back to over and over again for all the one-liners. Loved it.

Perfect Audiobook for a long flight

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A unique intellect so beautifully expressed. wisdom gleaned from a life you couldn’t make up.

So it goes

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Important for all humanity to read and contemplate the humble and human way of Kurt Vonnegut.

Important for all humanity.

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I will never tire of K.V’s writing, Straight ahead, sane advice for anyone, entertaining , thought provoking, hopeful and always as he says Kind in the most basic way.
Would recommend this to everyone.

Vonnegut - If this isn’tNice, What is?

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Wasn't my favourite narration but I really enjoyed the book :)
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Really enjoyed the book

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