I am madly in love with the works of Kurt Vonnegut. His books are pretty easy reads and I usually am reading or re-reading one at any given time. Does anyone else like him, do you have a favorite of his?
My favorites are, well whichever ones I am usually reading which currently is Timequake and Deadeye Dick. I also love Man Without A Country.
Izzy
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Posted:
Mar 19 2011 02:51 pm
I enjoyed Cat's Cradle but it's the only one of his I read. Everyone seems to think Slaughterhouse-Five is a masterpiece.
Jack Slater
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Posted:
Mar 19 2011 03:22 pm
Did you know that Vonnegut was in Dresden when Allies firebombed it to the ground? Soiled his whole opinion on war.
Cause that's how I roll bounce.
aeonic
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Posted:
Mar 19 2011 08:04 pm
Breakfast of Champions was a pretty good fucking read.
Who likes role-playing games? Me. Way too goddamn much.
brellow
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Mar 21 2011 01:58 am
Slaughterhouse-five might be a masterpiece but it's better if you don't expect it to be anything. I knew that Jack and wouldn't it have been more bizarre if after the firebombing and cleaning up of dead civilian bodies he had felt war was awesome. I like Breakfast of Champions but I am sad a little because I know all the people in the town of Midland City where that book is based die when a Neutron bomb goes off.(Deadeye Dick)
Jack Slater
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Posted:
Mar 21 2011 02:42 am
brellow wrote:
I knew that Jack and wouldn't it have been more bizarre if after the firebombing and cleaning up of dead civilian bodies he had felt war was awesome.
That would be more than bizarre. It would be disturbing.
Cause that's how I roll bounce.
Optimist With Doubts
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Posted:
Mar 21 2011 11:06 am
I love kurt vonnegut, he is my all time favorite author.
docinsano
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Posted:
Mar 21 2011 09:40 pm
Armageddon in Retrospect is a great collection of short stories by Vonnegut. Its a collection of previously unpublished works
Isn't there a cheesy z grade movie adaptation of Slaughterhouse 5? I've heard rumors of it but never seen it.
brellow
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Location: Ohio
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Posted:
Mar 22 2011 12:43 am
I have not read Armaggeddon In Retrospect yet but I want to. I don't know about a cheesy movie for Slaughterhouse 5 but I do know there is a movie adaptation of his short story Harrison Bergeron where Sean Astin is Harrison Bergeron and it is definitely not very good. Very mediocre movie.
Black Zarak
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Posted:
Mar 22 2011 01:33 am
Ooh, that one about the kid with the goggles and chains and at the end he gets shot with a shotgun?
