"A snide and candid story about humans and their unfortunately large brains.

The main story line takes place in Ecuador in 1986 where it follows what will be a small group of people who intended to climb aboard the Bahía de Darwin for "the nature cruise of the century" to the Galapagos islands. The original nature cruise plans are thwarted by war. Yada, yada, yada, things are much different a million years later.

The premise of the book is imaginative, and the storytelling form was quite novel (pardon the pun). The main story line that takes place over just a day or so crawls along at a snail's pace. It felt like 70% percent of the book is backstory about each new character as they are introduced. Another 25% of the book is foreshadowing about the following million years. As the book goes on, you even realize that the narrator is also a character with his own back story. I found Vonnegut's way of telling this story entertaining enough, but I also wondered the whole time if I would eventually grow tired of it. I didn't, but I may have came close.

Ultimately this books is a satire mainly about the absurdity of the human condition as it currently stands. Our large brains, which we have long assumed to be a good thing, may not be well suited for survival, especially on the Galapagos islands.

I think Vonnegut as a writer is great. He makes me proud to be from Indiana, mostly because he was so proud of being from Indiana. This book, however, I found to be merely good.
I recommend this book if you already like Vonnegut and want to read more. If you haven't read much Vonnegut yet, there are better books to start with. "

"Interesting, perfect for all the thinking about running I’ve been doing, however hate the moments of Murakami talking about young women"