Kurt Vonegut  2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Kurt Vonegut  2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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Kurt Vonegut: 2BR02B
A perfect world where the population is controlled. One person must die for each new birth.

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Narrator: philip chenevert

Unabridged: 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million, a number which is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide. In short, for someone to be born, someone else must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident. The scene is a waiting room at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, where Edward K. Wehling Jr. is faced with the situation that his wife is about to give birth to triplets, but he has found only one person, his maternal grandfather, who will volunteer to die

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julee on July 26, 2015

I can't decide what is scarier, to think that Susan Collins had all of that philosophical and historical content whizzing about in her head when writing the Hunger Games or to believe that she just wrote it all and stumbled upon the connections! No I'm going with, she's a philosophical and historica......more

Goodreads review by Marcia on November 16, 2014

I read this book as part of the research I am doing for my master thesis, which is about the current popularity of the dystopian genre amongst adolescents. I liked the essays in this book, some were more useful than others. The essays were interesting but not very special or groundbreaking. Just an......more

Goodreads review by Crimelpoint on October 13, 2021

Cieżko mi się to czytało. Nie jest napisane prostym językiem, a szkoda, bo był potencjał. Po prostu ok.......more

Goodreads review by Walter on September 09, 2012

By now, I've read a pretty wide selection of the "Philosophy and Pop Culture" series put out by several publishing houses over the last decade or so, and while it's commendable that important scholars and philosophers have finally agreed to descend from their ivory towers to grace us with......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena on January 21, 2024

The absolute best thing about the book is that it often feels like a deep conversation about HG with someone more intelligent than me, who's able to both articulate my own thoughts as well as direct my attention to things I had not considered. I'm glad I read it even though I nearly gave up half-way......more