Any Vonnegut fans in here?

[Vonnegut No.4266213]

[Anonymous No.4266215]

I'm on a Vonnegut kick right now.
Read Cat's Cradle and Galapagos last week, mostly through Jailbird now.

[Anonymous No.4266219]

reading Bluebeard right now

[Anonymous No.4266245]

>>4266213
I wrote a paper on him in high school. Only read slaughterhouse, cat's cradle and mother night. I should get back into his other stuff sometime.

[Anonymous No.4266256]

>>4266245
I read slaughterhouse five, and besides being a metaphor on the capacity the human species has for hatred and self destruction I don't get it (why its so praised)

[Anonymous No.4266437]

>>4266256
it is a great stusy of his traumas and how he uses literature to cope witht them just like American society used consumerism.

[Anonymous No.4266504]

Read Breakfast of Champions, Sirens of Titan, and God Bless You over the summer. It's so absurd I cant help but love it. "Chrono-synclastic infundibulum" may be one of my favorite phrases.

[Anonymous No.4266518]

probably my favorite author. out of what i've read i'd rank them like this

Cat's Cradle>Slaughterhouse-Five>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater=Breakfast of Champions>Bluebeard>Mother Night

GBYMR and Bluebeard are highly underrated

[Anonymous No.4267586]

I've only read Slaughterhouse 5 but I did enjoy his style. Not to mention I love a wee bit of metafiction

[Anonymous No.4267943]

>>4266213
>The new editions
Filthy Caz

[Anonymous No.4268069]

>>4266213

>colourful good looking books
>stickers

[Anonymous No.4268103]

>>4266518
>not liking mother night

[Anonymous No.4268162]

Monday (11 Nov) would've been his birthday.

He had a quote that made the rounds lately about his appreciation for The Brothers Karamazov as the only book you need. It was likely the first book that Vonnegut read after returning home from WWII.

Dostoyevsky's birthday was Monday as well.

[Anonymous No.4268203]

>>4268162

This essay may be of interest to anyone who like
Vonnegut and Doesty
http://www.utoronto.ca/tsq/DS/02/129.shtml

[Anonymous No.4268209]

>>4268103
I'm not saying I don't like it, but reading it after SH5 made it kind of feel like draft for the war parts of SH. There's plenty of interesting ideas behind it, but for me, MN never really rises above depicting meetings of Black Fuhrer of Brooklyn or talking about mild erotica in Soviet Union. It's like Vonnegut is holding himself back here. Which, of course, can be put into a perspective with the thematical aspects of SH5.

[Anonymous No.4268214]

>>4266518
>mother night
>worst book

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[Anonymous No.4268218]

>>4268214
Seeing that he has not read shitty Vonnegut (Deadeye Dick, Slapstick, Jailbird, Timequake) or mixed (Galapagos, Player Piano, Hocus Pocus), I think it's reasonable to say that MN is the worst of his good works.

[Anonymous No.4268455]

>>4268203
>This essay may be of interest to anyone who like
>Vonnegut and Doesty
>http://www.utoronto.ca/tsq/DS/02/129.shtml

That's fantastic. Thanks for posting this.

[Anonymous No.4268465]

Finished a man without a country minutes ago. Considering how much I loved slaughter house five I was amazed by how bored I was. One of the most boring books I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.4268486]

>>4266213
mother night and slaughterhouse are the only ones i enjoyed

also maybe god bless you mr rosewater. the rest were either base or just meh

[Anonymous No.4268493]

>>4268218
>deadeye dick
>shitty
its one of his better ones. if anything breakfast of champions is shit

[Anonymous No.4268496]

>>4268493
>breakfast of champions

Something about that book felt more misanthropic and nihilistic to me than other works of his. Definitely not a favorite.

[Anonymous No.4268831]

It's been about a year since I've read anything of his, but I'm planning to read Welcome to the Monkey House and Mother Night in the next month

>mfw reading Sirens of Titan for the first time

[Anonymous No.4268845]

>>4268069
meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

[Anonymous No.4269047]

who the fuck doesn't like BoC? Kilgore Trout? Dwayne! Fuck that...awesome book. I am not saying SF isn't better...but still

[Anonymous No.4269066]

Kristy, go to bed.

[Anonymous No.4269070]

>>4268486
Have you read cat's cradle?

[Anonymous No.4269296]

>>4268103
yeah that's exactly what i said

[Anonymous No.4269989]

>>4269047
Well, it's very self-indulgent and some people are annoyed by its extreme lack of giving a fuck towards telling a story or doing anything else than killing time.

[Anonymous No.4270006]

>>4269047
I know for a fact that your mam likes BoC

big ol' cock

[Anonymous No.4270715]

I got the advice to read Slaughterhouse- five, Cats cradle, Breakfast of Champions but I don't want to buy all three before having read anything by him so I wonder where I should start.

[Anonymous No.4270797]

I'd start with Slaughterhouse Five. It's partly autobiographical which adds to the drama, even if he comes across as just dropping a tab and writing it all down now and then.

On that note, I guess Hocus Pocus is not very highly rated as one of his works, yet I found it to be awesome. So no love out there for HP?

[Anonymous No.4270912]

I've read Slaughterhouse 5 and I really liked it. Like another anon said, the fact that it is autobiographical really hit me in the feels. I plan on reading more of him in the future, but I already have such a backlog of books it might be a good while until I get to it.

[Anonymous No.4270928]

>>4270715
If you don't have the money to spend on a risk a library might help

[Anonymous No.4270931]

Vonnegut is perhaps the worst author to have ever lived. His prose has no flair, he has all the wit of a middle schooler, and his humanistic sensibilities are laughably naive.