There are no words that can describe just how much of a fan I am of Kurt Vonnegut. I’ve read several of his books, including Slaughterhouse Five, Bluebeard, and Mother Night. I’ve enjoyed each and every one of those books, Vonnegut is what I’d call a master of the post-modern, filling his books with hilarious stories that don’t always make sense, but seem to connect to each other so bloody well.

But the thing with Timequake is that it’s premise is just so awesome, it could literally stop planets from moving.

The premise is actually pretty simple. During the year 1991, the world decided to stop caring, thus causing a quake in the flow of time, dooming reality to repeat itself every ten years. Thus, for the next ten years, people would go about in their activities in a normal manner, but come 2001, exactly ten years later, everybody would go back to what they were doing back in 1991 - and this would continue in an indefinite loop.

The very thought of it just sends shivers up and down my spine. Vonnegut is a bleepin’ genius.

Once I’m done with the book, I’ll make sure to post a review of it up here. I’m sure that it’ll be a very, very good review, unlike the one I just finished for Rushdie’s newer works. Timequake was published way back in 1997, and Vonnegut, unfortunately, passed away last year.

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