You can tell from the title that I finally finished, "Sirens of Titans," by Kurt Vonneget. What winds up happening is that Malachi Constant is told who he is, then publicly humiliated in front of Earth's population, and sent away with his wife and son to one of Saturn's moon. Winston finds out that he was just being used by an alien planet for a space ship part replacement, and everything is basically messed up.
What I find funny about this book is how everything is ironic, and how every word and every sentence in this book was very important. The whole purpose of Earth was to find a replacement part for a ship. These aliens were using Winston, who was using people like Malachi to bring world peace. I find it so funny how life works like this. You think that you're doing something nice for a chance, only to find out that you are apart of someone's agenda. This example is what happened in the book. I can't stress how many times I've been used to someone's advantage, or I used someone else for the exact same reason.
It seems that most people aren't genuinely nice and selfless. It seems that when people appear to have these qualities, it's a gimmick. Well, what does this say? Does this say that everyone is an artificial asshole? No, but there are very few people who do good things for the sake of doing good things. For example, there are all of these charities who help people, because god told them to do it, and if they don't they'll be sent to hell. Why don't do just help people to be a good person? It is that statement that just shows how truly wise and brilliant this book is. Winston was just trying to do something nice for a change, well that obviously didn't work out so well.
