/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9573119]

QUICKLY

POST YOUR FAVORITE VONNEGUT NOVEL

[Anonymous No.9573124]

>>9573119
Favorite? Like it's a competition

[Anonymous No.9573128]

>favourite
>vonnegut
>novel
Maybe you would be better off on reddot, you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.9573177]

>>9573128
If he's good enough for Bloom, anon, he's good enough for you

[Anonymous No.9573219]

>>9573128
Vonnegut precedes Reddit you autist.

[Anonymous No.9573236]

I've never read a Vonnegut novel, I'm 22 and I've heard he is for manchildren. Admittedly I am a manchild but low-tier satire just makes me cringe now.

[Anonymous No.9573251]

I've never read a Vonnegut novel, I'm 22 and I've heard he is for manchildren. Admittedly I am a manchild but low-tier satire just makes me cringe now. Should I read one of his books and if so which one?

[Anonymous No.9573253]

>>9573251
Slaughterhouse Five. You have to dig a bit to find the satire in that one

[Anonymous No.9573268]

>>9573119
nice, I've been meaning to get this because I read part of it and sounded really good but all the Vonnegut """"""fans"""""" seem to hate it.

I guess I should trust my gut more.

[Anonymous No.9573283]

>>9573119
I've only read 3 so far but Deadeye Dick was my favourite of the 3

[Anonymous No.9573297]

Bluebeard.

>>9573251
Vonnegut is always a quick, easy, entertaining read. But he always works with important, interesting, and morally relevant themes. I usually read him as a sort of palate cleanser between longer works. His voice is very distinctive; you can blind-read a paragraph and recognize him immediately if you've read any of his work before. Reading Vonnegut is listening to the strange wisdom and dark humor of an interesting old man.

[Anonymous No.9573302]

"I'm converting to Bokonism." - Thomas Pynchon

[Anonymous No.9573312]

>>9573251
Vonnegut's just fun, and his humor can hit the mark if you don't mind it dark and sometimes nonsensical.

>“To be is to do”—Socrates.
>“To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre.
>“Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra.

[Anonymous No.9573317]

holy shit the reddit invasion is real

[Anonymous No.9573323]

>>9573297
>palate cleanser
Oh my god, are you one of those fart-sommeliers that drinks in those exclusive Seattle Starbucks bars, then hot-box smart cars with your own gas and smack your lips saying this like "Ahh, yes, rusted cherries in that one"?

[Anonymous No.9573422]

>>9573251
Reading some Vonnegut may be good for your self-seriousness, or maybe even he can't penetrate your jadedness.

Cat's Cradle is my favorite. I've read like

[Anonymous No.9573431]

>>9573323
do words seriously threaten your well-being this badly? lol

[Anonymous No.9573435]

>>9573302
Sauce?

[Anonymous No.9573442]

>>9573119
Breakfast of Champions

[Anonymous No.9573583]

>>9573297
>>9573253
>>9573312
>>9573422
Alright he sounds like fun from your descriptions. I'm just worried it will be cringeworthy self-indulgent highschool-tier shit, but it doesn't sound like that from what you said.

There was some Onion article about how Vonnegut was for manchildren but I can't find it now...

[Anonymous No.9573669]

>>9573297
>Bluebeard
I really liked this one too.

[Anonymous No.9573681]

>>9573268
It's overwhelmingly mediocre and takes itself a fair bit more seriously than his later books. I wouldn't expect that much from it based on contrarian impulses alone.

[Anonymous No.9573795]

>>9573681
There's something about the way Vonnegut fans and PKD fans can never seem to agree on his best and have wildly differing opinions that makes me think maybe the authors are shit.

[Anonymous No.9574307]

I think I like Sirens of Titan the most
>>9573583
I wouldn't say it's cringeworthy, just don't expect some serious, inscrutable Recognitions shit. I'll always be nostalgic for Vonnegut because he was the one who got me into reading actual interesting writers when I was in high school.
>>9573669
>>9573297
Bluebeard is criminally underrated. Being the old disillusioned veteran who could never come to terms with what the war did to the world was one of his biggest schticks, and I think Bluebeard captured that the best out of everything I've read.

[Anonymous No.9574320]

>>9573795
The general consensus is that either Sirens of Titan or Cat's Cradle is his best. In these threads you just get a lot of people with their own pet favorites. Still though, neither Vonnegut or Dick are that great when stacked up against the likes of Joyce, Faulkner, Proust, Gaddis, Nabokov, Tolstoy, etc.

[Anonymous No.9574388]

>>9573442
This

[Anonymous No.9574433]

This.

[Anonymous No.9574438]

mother night was great and i think it had a great central conceit that actually made me think a bit about how i live my life

[Anonymous No.9574471]

>>9573119
>Reading Vonnegut past highschool

[Anonymous No.9575176]

>>9574471
THIS
Vonnegut was a fucking hack.

[Anonymous No.9575377]

>>9574471
>>9575176
good input guys

[Anonymous No.9575396]

>>9573128
pseud
>>9573317
pseud
>>9573323
pseud
>>9574471
pseud
>>9575176
pseud

[Anonymous No.9575398]

>>9573119
Slaughter-House 5 is the only good novel he wrote because it is incredibly successful metafiction. It's the only novel he wrote where he effectively admitted was a mediocre writer and could never express himself, and it was the most honest and sad book I read because it then became perfectly written. He's trapped by an experience he can never capture but is always captured by, and the book has this sad limbo throughout.

I'm not even being an asshole or insincere, SH5 is one of my favorite reads and the others are dishonest posturing.

[Anonymous No.9575403]

>>9575396
t. cucknegut cocksucker redditor

[Anonymous No.9575453]

If you can't find the joy in reading Vonnegut, you're trying to hard

[Anonymous No.9575692]

>>9575403
>post unironically uses "cuck"
>opinion can be safely discarded