Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos

Discussion in 'Books' started by wharfmouse, Nov 25, 2005.

  1. wharfmouse

    wharfmouse Member

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    What your favorite Kurt Vonnegut book?
    Galapagos is my favorite as of now, though I've only read a handful of them.

    I liked this book. I read it quite a bit ago and saw it at the library so, I checked it out to read it again.
     
  2. Aberfoyle

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    Galapagos was good, but Breakfast of Champions blew my mind.
     
  3. wireandstring

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    It's been so long since I hit up a Vonnegut book, maybe it's time I do it again. Once for christmas my parents (or "Santa", I think) gave me a copy of Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle. Both are insane and completely blew my 16-year-old stack. In fact when I applyed to college I made some inside joke about a drawing in BOC on the applications. Apparently I was a huge lit dork. Anyway somewhere along the line I got to thinking that I had like, surpassed Vonnegut or something, that it was a kid's thing, and now I realize how silly that was. It's pretty ageless and (oddly) timeless. I've been wanting to read Galapagos for a while, and Mother Night I hear is awesome.

    -Gavin
     
  4. mazzy

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    vonnegut is one of my favorite authors. even though its a collection of short stories, welcome to the monkey house is my favorite work by him. breakfast of champions is fantastic and bluebeard is another good one...
     
  5. Billy Brown

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    cat's cradle is probably the most goodest...
     
  6. Oceania

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    i liked "slaughter-house five"
     
  7. Oceania

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    oops. . .
     
  8. Blueriver

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    I've read most of what Vonnegut has written over the years and I enjoy revisiting his work. I think my favorite is Player Piano.
     
  9. alan82

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    i've read every book vonnegut has written... the man is a fucking genius...
    like most of you, my favorite is breakfast of champions... that book is so powerful, i think it's only book that's ever made me cry...
    of course cat's cradle comes in a close second... with all the religious bullshit that saturates all the news programs and what not, it was so refreshing to see that somebody out there thinks the same way i do, and made a bestselling book out of it!
     
  10. alan82

    alan82 Dying Inside

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    i have to recommend 'welcome to the monkey house' though.... it's a collection of his more popular short stories.... some very powerful stuff in there
     
  11. RimmyDelicious

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    I read Cats cradle when I was 12 years old and I liked it, but hardly understood it I'm sure and now I can't even remember it, accept for the world being covered in ice and shit. I read slaughterhouse five that same year, 7th grade. I also read it in high school and last year. Love that book.
     
  12. ydnim

    ydnim hiya

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    Dead Eye Dick or God Bless you Dr Kevorkian. I also love his short stories Bamboo Snuff box... It is hard to say I like them all.
     
  13. tuatara

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    galapagoes is the only vonnegut book i have read i think ..have it here in my collection
     
  14. kozmikbunny

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    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
     

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