I love this story because it is about the worlds richest man who goes on a trip from Earth to Mars, Mercury and Titan, a moon of saturn. Malachi Constant and his american time and space flying partner Winston Miles Rumfoord start a new civilization on mars which leads to a mission to take over the planet earth and kind of do what we did with the native americans and other cultures and brainwash them to take on a new religion and change Mankind. Rumfoord uses Malachi as a god or Jesus in his religion.
What I find funny about the book is that after reading about them going all through space and to all these planets and doing things only people can imagine, the book goes in to detail about how Winston had his own ship which has changed shape to something called "chromo-synclasic infandibulum," Talking about how Winston materializes and breaks free from physical substances of materials when he is in different places he travels throughout the solar system. One of the places I thought was funny to include was his and his wife Beatrice's huge house in Newport Rhode Island. It is such a different way to go from space to Rhode Island. The richest man gets invited to the estate which will make him the first person to be able to travel with Winston to his estate. They go bankrupt and whats funny is two martians that joined their faith bought the estate which happens many times in todays world.
Kurt Vonnegut usually incorporates things that are going on in todays world in his writing which I find really fascinating because he wrote most of his works many years ago which means he is writing a head of his time period. I didn't like this book as much as other readings I have read by Vonnegut but his style is so different than most readings that I usually choose.
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