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1180546 No.1180546 [Reply] [Original]

Which book should I start reading first?
pic very related.

>> No.1180556

Cat's Cradle, it has the best cover design. Also, this gives you a double shot of Salinger afterwards. Not that I should use some macho metaphor like espresso. Basically, as with your dinner as a child, eat the yucky stuff first so you can savour the good shit.

>> No.1180570

>>1180556
Yeah, except this is the opposite. Anon is eating the good shit then turning to that nasty double header. He doesn't even have to eat it if he don't want.

Read cats cradle anon. After that you can decide if you want more Von or you can try the Salinger. Personally, I fail to see much value in his work. Def required reading, but only because of cultural relevance - only so u can talk to girls about it.

>> No.1180574

>>1180570

That's because your taste is bad, dawg. Vonnegut sucks asssssss. 'Everyone's a stoopidhead' isn't profound satire.

Cue fifty billion /lit/tards coming out of the woodwork because they never gave a shit about the Second World War until they were told to read Slaughterhouse Five.

>> No.1180576

cats cradle has a good story and is enjoyable to read.

>> No.1180578

>>1180574
hey now

vonnegut is pretty good when you're 16 and haven't read a whole lot of really good literature. it serves a useful function in our society, and i think you have to let that happen. let kids read vonnegut and then move on, know what i'm sayin

>> No.1180580

>>1180578

Actually this may well be a fair comment, I just know I felt 'yeah and?' when I read him at the prescribed age.

>> No.1180671

>>1180546
oh please, Vonnegut has no age limit.
I'm 24 and i still enjoy him, my parents are more than 50 and still enjoy him.

>> No.1180684

>>1180671

That's because your taste is bad, dawg. As is your parents.

You were given something by that guy, a fig-leaf, a way out, but you were too haughty. Now you fall into my department.

>> No.1180693

>>1180684
How can you say I have a bad taste when you don't even know who my favorite writers are?

>> No.1180701

>>1180693

BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU TOLD ME JUST THEN THA'TS HOW OH MY GOODNESS YOU'RE A DUMB MOTHERFUCKER.

>> No.1180714

I don't know, OP. That's a tough fucking call. Three very good books. Roll of the dice.

>> No.1180736

>>1180701
o'right then, what if i'll tell you that I also love exactly the same writers that you do? and hate the exact same writers that you do?
will you still consider my taste bad?

>> No.1180827

>>1180736

BUT THAT'S CLEARLY NOT THE CASE. YOU ESTEEM VONNEGUT. END OF DISCUSSION.

>> No.1180842

>>1180827
trolled me once - shame on you.
trolled me twice - shame on me.
and be ashamed i shall.

>> No.1180865

Cat's Cradle. No contest. Ignore the silly Vonnegut hater.