Elon Musk: behind the billionaire bully
Walter Isaacson’s biography of the magnate and inventor is certainly worth a read, though you can’t help but feel he could have done so much more with his subject
05 October 2023 - 05:02
For his 50th birthday American author Kurt Vonnegut wrote himself a book. Breakfast of Champions is a strange work of fiction, complete with raggedy sketches and repetitive lines such as “Goodbye Blue Mondays!” The story is anchored by one Kilgore Trout, who is inherently suspicious of everything and everyone. Hard to like, Trout stubbornly charts his own path.
You laugh out loud at the book’s brilliance, but you also almost cry at its brutally honest take on reality. Vonnegut’s present to himself ended up being a gift to the world (or, at least, to this reader)...
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