Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut

I have now read three of Kurt's novels and two of his short stories and I am starting to get a feel for how he writes. This third book, Galapagos, is probably my least favorite so far but I still enjoyed it thoroughly. The story tells the tale of a small group of people who find themselves by a strange series of events stranded on one of the Galapagos islands. The story is told by a man from a million years in the future who has the capability to know the back story and emotions of all the players in the tale. The story ends, like some of Vonnegut's other books, with the destruction of the human race. The people on the island are fortunate to have avoided world war three and a virus that destroys women's ovaries that has decimated the rest of the world.

I really like the disjointed way that Vonnegut writes. He lets you know what is going to happen before it happens and manages to make it work. The story takes place from so many different angles at once that you really get a feel for the way things play out. I almost feel that the plot is second to the character development. Its all about the ride not the destination.