A review by stolee
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

4.0

Vonnegut's first novel lacks some of his signature style (for instance, it has a standard narrative device) but does not lack any of his wit and cynicism. His imagined America which is taken over by managers and engineers with no work left for the poorly-educated (i.e. no PhD!) masses leaves people with nothing to do and no hope. In one sense, this is the absolute opposite of "Atlas Shrugged."

The only part of this book that doesn't hold up is the technology involved in computers. Otherwise, everything is disturbingly accurate.