KV

[withoutcanseco]

So, I just finished reading my fourth vonnegut book (false_alarm noticed that i woefully lacked vonnegut knowledge). Here is my list of favorite to least favorite:


1 Sirens of Titan
2 Slaughterhouse Five
3 Breakfast of Champions
4 Cat's Cradle

Was wondering if anybody read him or not? And would anybody have a suggestion for the next book of his i should read? The guy's a fucking nut. But I love most parts of the stories. And i like pictures of beavers.

[007]

That's funny. You have read exactly the same Vonnegut books that I have in number. I own (and have read) all of those, but haven't read any others.

I would recommend more, but I just don't know. Keep me informed if you have any other recommendations.

[007]

There is also a link about KV under the TV forum.

I think FA suggested Hocus Pocus, although I haven't read it.

[slam]

yeah, you pretty much hit the ones i've read/liked.

i've heard 'player piano' is really good, but i haven't read it.

[withoutcanseco]

oh yeah. i also read the short story "Harrison Burgeron" which was fucking depressing. and by depressing i mean it was awesome.

[False Alarm]

some other favs (in no particular order):

mother night
welcome to the monkey house (collected short stories)
galapagos
bluebeard
hocus pocus

actually, i just realized that's in chronological order. anyway, withoutcanseco, i got a hardcover edition of galapagos recently, so i can give you my old copy if you want. mother night and bluebeard are more realist (as opposed to the surrealistic/postmodernish things he does in, say, SH-5 and breakfast) than the other books you listed (and both awesome), so it might be interesting for you to take a look at that side of him. and hocus pocus is probably my favorite of all. i dunno.

re: player piano, it's a good read, but it's pretty familiar ground for sci-fi fans. i thought the most interesting thing about it was that his voice wasn't really fully developed yet, so a lotta the time you'd be checking the cover to make sure it's the same author, and then periodically you'd hit a great passage where you're just like, oh shit! and you could glimpse what vonnegut would become.

[Soul Queen]

I recently finished Sirens of Titan. I loved it.

I've read Cats Cradle, I own Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast. I have yet to read them. I really thought alot of Sirens.

[larryhead]

1 Sirens of Titan
2 Slaughterhouse Five
3 Breakfast of Champions
4 Cat's Cradle


That is pretty close to my list of favorite Vonnegut books with Sirens being my top pick. I always get the other book names & stories mixed up.


re: player piano, it's a good read, but it's pretty familiar ground for sci-fi fans. i thought the most interesting thing about it was that his voice wasn't really fully developed yet, so a lotta the time you'd be checking the cover to make sure it's the same author, and then periodically you'd hit a great passage where you're just like, oh shit! and you could glimpse what vonnegut would become.

I totally agree. Player Piano was actually the first Vonnegut book I read (and his first novel, published in 1952), and it's really nothing like his others. It carries much the same vibe as "1984" and "Brave New World" with a pretty bleak outlook on the future (hey it was written right after WWII). I'd like to re-read it sometime now that I've read his later work.

[False Alarm]

HAPPRY BIRTHDAY, KURT!

http://backwardscity.blogspot.com/2005/11/happy-birthday-wanda-jane.html

http://wolf.netwerk-x.com/archives/vonnegut.jpg

[withoutcanseco]

wow. that picture is fantastic.