Where there will be no Bon Jovi jokes because that song is bad and you should feel bad for liking it (BoC part 2)

Where I continue talking about Everything Sucks, Vol VII.

For one, it seems like this book is going to be less "direct" in its satire than I thought it would be. Rather than focus primarily on the idea of the media, kurt vonnegut is attacking a lot of different things. For example. as I previously mentioned, the book starts off with describing america, and keeps that going for a while.

A frequent source of themes in this story are the various novels that kilgore trout has published (Which I can't post due to the excellent SFW publishing plan he has going on), that are frequently mentioned throughout this book. For example, kilgore trout mentions that he wrote a book about a person that communicates only with farting and tap dancing (One must have assumed it sounded like Esperanto). He tries to tell earthlings how to create world peace and cure cancer, but they can't understand what he is saying, so they kill him. This is obviously a message about the importance of communication, and stories like this show up frequently in this book.

It is also a fact that whenever Kilgore Trout appears (There are recurring characters in vonnegut books that can be used to connect them all together. It's similar to Tarantino's films, except with less foot fetish), he serves as an avatar for Vonnegut himself. The fact that he has a starring role in this book means that we might get to see some insight as to what Vonnegut thinks of himself.
Another theme is the development of dwayne hoover. It has already been established that Dwayne Hoover will recieve a copy of Kilgore Trout's x that will cause him to run amok (I am guessing tht this will be the climax of the book). What this book is doing now is setting up the events that will result in Dwayne Hoover losing his mind. For example, chapter six features Dwayne Hoover repeating "Where am I?" in his hometown that he owns most of. This represents his gradual decline in identity, with is more proof of his instability.

Overall, this section is doing a nice job of setting things up for the ending. I've noticed that the ending is usually the best and most important part of a vonnegut book, so I am excited to see what this book will conclude with.