/lit/ - Literature

>>18391212
What would you call this?

No it isn't. Maybe you should read these books before making dumb comparisons?

Vonnegut is honestly better and funnier than Pynchon.

>>18391344
I call that what my english teacher forced us to read in 10th grade

>>18391212
ironically i like all of Vonneguts books except for Slaughterhouse

>>18391212
It's evolution baby

>>18392123
Based Vonnegut is underrated around here.

i dont like pynchon and i like vonnegut even donter

>walks into any conversation about vonnegut
Slapstick is better
>refuses to elaborate further
>leaves

I have been rereading Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano was pretty great, little scatter shot but better than most first novels in that regard. It is interesting how he plays with the contrast of the wholesome mid century view of the promise of the atomic age made by folks like Popular Science and reality, he manages to do it without being either pulpy or sci fi and he got a fair amount right.

Sirens of Titan surprised me, he really developed his ideas and technique in the years between it and Player Piano, he touches on most everything he was and everything he would be as a writer and we see the seeds of many of his later novels. Really liked how he developed the ideas of Harrison Bergeron and took them from absurdist to poignant and directly relatable. Frank Herbert and Douglas Adams owe their careers to this one.

Really look forward to Mother Night.

>>18391344
Idk but I always associate that style of cover with modern fad books that I will never read.

>>18392200
This one's funny because I've read Slaughterhouse-Five described as a "poor man's Catch-22" and Catch-22 as a "poor man's Gravity's Rainbow".

>>18392200
>>18392913
is 22 really that bad? I thought it was generally considered pretty decent

>>18393484
Honestly, I think Catch-22 is a great novel. Some people do look down on it because it's a "clever" book that has scatological humor throughout, but, unlike Slaughterhouse-Five, I thought it was actually funny and nuanced on its subject matter I've never read Gravity's Rainbow so maybe it does just blow it out of the water.

>>18392913
>>18393484
The order of the three books is only chronological, not ranking.

>>18393553
I wanna read Gravity's Rainbow. I watched Ebert's videos on it and the book sounds like adopey comedic doozy.

>>18392799
checked and vonnegutpilled

>>18391212
Vonnegut was the author that got me into reading so I don't care if he's not high tier or whatever

>>18394122
Anyone who can not find worth in Vonnegut probably either does not read or reads for image. Notice that the naysayers never can backup their claims, they just meme.

>>18392200
you posted the wrong picture

>>18394173
But Squirtle's the Coolest

>>18394139
Unironically, anon, tell me what Vonnegut I should read if I thought Slaughterhouse-Five was just okay.

>>18394238
Kind of a crap shoot without knowing more, so take your pick. Or give something to actually go off of, what did and didn't you like about Slaughterhouse Five and what books do you enjoy?

>>18394215
It's literally a squirting turtle

>>18394238
not that anon, but sirens of titan is probably my favorite

That is actually one of my least favorite Vonnegut books. My favorites are Breakfast of Champions and Sirens of Titan. Cat's Cradle , Mother Night and Godbless You, Mr. Rosewater are also some of his best, in my opinion.

>>18392830

This. These types of covers are so off-putting.

>>18394238
Cat’s Cradle is his best novel

what the fuck was Kurt's problem?
>all the stories loosely fit together
>reacquiring charterers with odd abilities that fail to utilize them effectively despite their archetype being one that could
>some kind of tangible timeline of events
>it all goes tits up in the end as soon as he hit the age of his writing (Galapagos)

How did Vonnegut manage to write the western version of Jojo before Jojo was even mostly written? It baffles me. I made a thread about this on here years ago, but every time I see Vonnegut brought up it evokes something primal in me akin to an ape wanting to smash something he doesn't understand.

The problem about Vonnegut is all his books are so short I try to finish them in one sitting and the. I get burnt out and frustrated. Also there's some like timequake and slapstick that just suck ass and aren't worth anybody's time.

Sirens of Titan is his best work, followed by Galapagos.