Vonnegut, anyone?

hey, hey y'all! i'm on my fifth Vonnegut book in about four weeks. i'm reading Jailbird. anyone else here dig this dude?

 

"Yes, yes!"

 

Ahh, yes. Kilgore Trout's pretty damn awsome.

 

Yeah. I like the one about the money tree, how all the humans would kill themselves to get to all the money hanging from it's branches, which would fertilize the tree. KV's fucking twisted, I love the man.

 

Hocus Pocus is good

 

Slaughter House Five, Galopagos, Blue Beard, Palm Sunday, Dead Eye Dick and currently getting through Jailbird. i think Blue Beard is my favorite, so far. i really liked how in the first two i read, the story jumped from decade to decade in a randon way. i guess they all do that but, the first two i read did that an awful lot. anyone here believe Tramalfadorians are really out there? when i was reading Slaughter, i got the feeling that Billy Pilgrim's ability to time-hop was an anology for death. i mean, when you die, aren't you able to see your entire life as it really happened? maybe his time-hops were just his spirit jumping around the different times in his life cycle.

 

I read Breakfast of Champions when I was 20.


It was pretty cool but I'm not sure hes my favorite author.

 

Cat's Cradle is also a good one that I haven't seen mentioned

 

^^I did, on my first post. Read the mayonnaise chapter.

 

I don't grok what your saying.

 

He's even better than Robbins at spewing twisted ideas!

 

I liked 'Welcome to the Monkey House' the best. There's this one short story that deals with an exstacy producing radiowave frequency, someshit, anyways it's a good sample of his talents.

 

He's twisted. And I love him.

I read Slaughterhouse Five in the 5th grade for some reading log of the month thing, and my teacher laughed when she saw the booby picture. She was cool.

 

I love Vonnegut... his books are fantastic and he's such a unique speaker...

"What are conservatives? They are people who will move heaven and earth, if they have to, who will ruin a company or a country or a planet, to prove to us and to themselves that they are superior to everybody else, except for their pals. They take good care of their pals, keep them out of jail—and so on.

Conservatives are crazy as bedbugs. They are bullies.

Shock and awe.

Class war? You bet.

They have proved their superiority to admirers of Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain and Jesus of Nazareth, with an able assist from television, making inconsequential our protests against their war.

What has happened to us? We have suffered a technological calamity. Television is now our form of government.

On what grounds did we protest their war? I could name many, but I need name only one, which is common sense."

Kurt Vonnegut​

 

I love Player Piano, but all I have read were awesome.

 

Love Him!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

I finde him very, very sad an now I have a feeling that I won`t read him for many years.

 

Mother Night was very, very good, but the movie was a travesty.
Vonnegut writes with a style all his own. I think he's influenced tons of other writers. He's a legend. Glad to see other people dig him.

 

I just finished reading "Slaughterhouse 5" this morning. I think its a pretty good book. I am going to check out some of his other stuff pretty soon.

 

cat's cradle has the best ending of any vonnegut book. in my opinion, at least.