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Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-04-12 14:07:12 +0000

I think I liked "Slaughterhouse Five," thought didn't love it. Was indifferent towards "Cat's Cradle." I still have a copy of Stefanie Carey's "Breakfast of Champions." Should I read that one? Disappointing for sure, but not nearly as tragic as this bullshit.

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-04-12 15:43:44 +0000

Vonnegut was, and is, awesome.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-04-12 16:21:29 +0000

'Cat's Cradles' remains the best "fuck you" to organized religion ever written.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-04-12 16:31:46 +0000

busy busy busy

Posted by MF DU on 2007-04-12 18:04:00 +0000

huh?

Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-04-12 19:19:14 +0000

Read it. Get it.

Posted by pchippy on 2007-04-13 16:12:05 +0000

A couple of my favorites: Bluebeard and Galapagos.

Posted by Miriam on 2007-04-13 16:22:22 +0000

Never read any of his works. Catch 22 was on a summer reading list in high school that I never got around to; will add him to my running tally of recommended authors.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-04-13 16:24:52 +0000

In a literary thread I didn't get that it was a book reference. Wow. Time for more sleep. And How.

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-04-13 16:33:36 +0000

After you finish Catch 22 (which is amazing), you can read some Vonnegut!

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-04-13 16:34:01 +0000

Bluebeard is the first one I read.

Posted by Miriam on 2007-04-13 16:36:11 +0000

Oops. Yeah...my brain is a little short of O2 these days.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2007-04-13 16:40:50 +0000

I just remember him coming to speak at UNH drunk out of his mind. Anyone else remember that? According to my "man on the inside" at PCOC, he arrived stinking of booze, pulled out a bottle of vermouth, and proceeded to down it in the 45 minutes prior to going on stage. Oh, that and also he drew pictures of what all the characters' bum-holes looked like in one of his books.

Posted by Epoisses on 2007-04-13 16:57:58 +0000

He was amazing -- the lecture was called "How to get a job like mine". He started like this: "How to get a job like mine? You can't."

Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-04-13 17:32:30 +0000

He had a nice cameo in Back To School, in which Rodney Dangerfield's character paid him to write his essay on Vonnegut. He got an F with a comment along the lines of "You clearly know nothing about Vonnegut."

Posted by Miriam on 2007-04-13 18:56:01 +0000

Totally forgot about that. Genius scene.

Posted by tommy on 2007-04-13 20:42:32 +0000

An allusion, perhaps, to the Marshall-McLuhan-in-movie-line scene from Annie Hall. Or, is that giving Rodney Dangerfield too much respect?