 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today is going to be kind of a quicky review. I don't really have much to say about this, but and I wasn't going to review it at all, but there is one passage in here that I wanted to share with you guys, but this is Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian. This isn't it. It's a super, super short collection of like short stories, short, they're not really short stories. It is about Kurt Vonnegut himself. If you don't know, he always wrote himself as the main character or one of his his alter egos like Kilgore Trout, that kind of thing. This is just a series of his not really interviews, but Dr. Kevorkian kind of, well not kind of keeps half killing him. If you don't, Dr. Kevorkian is a doctor in the United States who was helping people commit suicide when they were terminally ill, people who no longer wanted to live through the pain, that kind of thing. I think he ended up going to prison. I can't remember and I didn't look it up before I shot the video, but so this is Kurt Vonnegut supposing that he has that I don't know about every day or so. He goes to Dr. Kevorkian. Dr. Kevorkian half kills him. That's what it says in the book and then he goes and he meets all these different people and it's not really interviews but he does discuss what they talk about and I'm going to go back here. The list of persons, if you're interested, this might end up not being a quickie review. I don't know, but Dr. Mary D. Ainsworth, Salvatore Biagini, I'm not sure, Burnham Burnham, John Brown, Gorsh Burke, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Victor Debs, Harold Epstein, Vivian Halonen, Adolf Hitler, which we'll get to in a minute, John Wesley Joyce, Francis Keane, Sir Isaac Newton, Peter Pellegrino, James Earl Ray, the guy who killed Martin Luther King Jr., William Shakespeare, Mary, I almost screwed, no, I'll just say Mary Shelley, her middle name or her maiden name. I, I, Wolstencraft? Wolstencraft. Carla Faye Tucker, Kilgore Trout, which is who I mentioned before, and then Isaac Asimov. My favorite ones in here are the, my favorite sections, not my favorite people. Adolf Hitler, Sir Francis Newton, Kilgore Trout, and Isaac Asimov. I had no idea Isaac Asimov was as prolific as he was. How much did he written? This book made me go out and look up some of his stuff. Probably not going to read any of it, because that's just not my thing, but it did interest me, because I didn't know the history behind him. I knew he was a famous science fiction writer. I just didn't realize how much he had written. So we're going to go to page 45. I'm going to read you a segment here from Adolf Hitler, because it has, it struck a chord with me, the same way that living down here in the South, if you're a Southerner and you're one of the people to, kind of like the nationalist, this is probably going to upset you. So I had to click away now before I get great comments that you just don't understand the show and the history. I don't want to hear it, but it struck a chord with me reading this, how it's, I've always thought about the Civil War being the same thing as Nazi Germany, being on the same level. So the statues of the Confederate soldiers and all the the rebel flags and everything has always bothered me around here, even before all the debate with them pulling down the flag from for sale at Walmart of all places and all that stuff. It's always bothered me because it's like, it's not a good point in history. So he's talking to to Adolf Hitler and Adolf Hitler says, I paid my dues along with everybody else, he said. It is his hope that a modest monument, possibly a stone cross, since he was a Christian, will be erected somewhere in his memory, possibly on the grounds of the United Nations headquarters in New York. It should be incised, he says, with his name and dates 1889 to 1945. Underneath should be a two word sentence in German. I'm not even going to try and pronounce it because I'm a Confederate someone. Roughly translated into English this comes out, I beg your pardon or excuse me. I like that section. Like I said, most of these people, I didn't know, I didn't say that, I said like I said, but what I was getting at is most of these people I didn't know. So the other interviews or these other segments, I didn't really get. Some of them were funny even though I didn't know the person, but the three that I enjoyed the most were those. The James O. Ray one was actually kind of bothersome. It's just that one, like I said, before he, he's the guy who killed Martin Luther King Jr. It was very disturbing to hear, but I know it's fiction. Don't get me wrong, I know it's fiction, but it was very disturbing to hear James O. Ray talk about how famous he made Martin Luther King Jr. by killing him. That's the whole section of that. He was really pissed off. And I don't think there's a hell in here. I believe at some point in time that Vonnegut says there is no hell, there's only the heaven. So even the bad guys got to go to heaven kind of deal. I thought that was interesting, but the whole book has a section of interviews. So if you know those people and you come across this book, maybe, maybe pick it up. I'm going to give it, I'm giving it four stars just for the sections that I knew. I mean, I can't really fault the book for, you know, for describing scenes, scenarios, you know, people that I didn't know, but I do have a huge problem. And I'm, yes, I'm knocking off a star for this one. It's $18 for this little hard cover. The book is 72 pages. And this is all the white space you get. I mean, there's whole pages without writing on it. I would say it's probably about more like 60 pages. And for your money, if you can find it cheap, get it. If not, I really don't believe it's worth it, except for maybe as like a coffee table book. So yeah, this wasn't a quickie review. But yeah, I just figured I'd share my thoughts on this one. It's not normally my type of thing. I like Vonnegut, but I like more of his story driven stuff. And this really wasn't story driven. I did like some of the snippets about Dr. Kravorkian. He's not really in the book very much. But yeah, so if you guys want to, what I'm getting at, let me finish that thought. He's not really in the book as much. There's no commentary. There's no interviewing Dr. Kravorkian. And that's another thing that I thought was funny. I really would have liked to have seen more from Dr. Kravorkian. Maybe he couldn't because he just used the name. He wasn't allowed to put it. I don't, I don't know. But it just seemed funny that there was so much about him in here and he's not actually part of the interviews. Maybe that's intended. I don't know. But have you read? God bless you, Dr. Kravorkian. Or do you have any comments on this video? I'm sure you do. Leave them down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been the Book Review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.