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what does /lit/ think of Kurt Vonnegut? I've read Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and am currently on Breakfast of Champions. I'm really into his writing style. Any other must read books by him?

>> No.4966886

Post-war idiom based ironic deconstructive satire.

How's the eighth grade going, OP?

>> No.4967381

>>4966886
This.

Vonnegut a shiiieeeet.

>> No.4967406

>>4966886
I'm new to /lit/. Is every discussion on specific authors going to be like this?

>> No.4967443

>>4967406
i'm afraid so

>> No.4967449

>>4967443
btw read mother night, it's my favorite

>> No.4967453

Time quake is his best work

>> No.4967459

I read like 40 pages of Slaughterhouse-5 and something about the writing infuriated me with boredom so I had to stop

>> No.4967460

>>4967381
Go away, Lew.

>> No.4967464

Ugly name, ugly face. Don't like.

>> No.4967466

I could swear this OP is copypasta.

Anyway I think he's a trite hack and his stuff is too barebones. Like all of the lolxdsorandom stuff in Cat's Cradle. I first read Vonnegut in my 20's and felt exactly this way. Shortly after I read a Pynchon book and pretty much thought "this must be what Vonnegut was trying to do".

I can see why people might like him and why he is a good stepping stone for younger readers to get out of "genre fiction", but I don't enjoy his books.

>> No.4967485

>you will never be Felix Hoenikker