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What is favorite Vonnegut book?
Posted on 4/13/26 at 10:58 am
Posted on 4/13/26 at 10:58 am
And why?
I’ll let a few responses go before I disclose mine. Mine would be in his generally agreed upon top 10, but possibly not top 5.
I’ll let a few responses go before I disclose mine. Mine would be in his generally agreed upon top 10, but possibly not top 5.
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Posted on 4/13/26 at 12:49 pm to Gerry Laval
Breakfast of Champions. Hilarious and thought provoking at the same time. I loved the final meeting of Hoover and Trout at the Holiday Inn bar. What an ending that makes you think.
Slaughter-House Five is second mainly because it really contains most of his themes and is semi-autobiographical. Probably the best for entry into KV's world.
Mother Night. Probably not high on a lot of lists but it is a great love story and talks about pretending to be something you are not and so it has a lot of timely resonance.
Player Piano and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater are just as important today as when they were written.
Those are my favorites.
Slaughter-House Five is second mainly because it really contains most of his themes and is semi-autobiographical. Probably the best for entry into KV's world.
Mother Night. Probably not high on a lot of lists but it is a great love story and talks about pretending to be something you are not and so it has a lot of timely resonance.
Player Piano and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater are just as important today as when they were written.
Those are my favorites.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 1:06 pm to Gerry Laval
Sirens of Titan. Never trust Tralfamadorians.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 9:33 pm to Gerry Laval
Read them all and hard to choose one. Maybe Slapstick (which he apparently wasn’t a big fan of) or Bluebeard.
He has some great short stories, too. Deer in the works is my favorite.
Deer in the works
He has some great short stories, too. Deer in the works is my favorite.
Deer in the works
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:07 am to S
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Deer in the works is my favorite.
I'd never read that. As someone trying to escape the corporate world, that really spoke to me. I need to save this one.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:44 am to 9Fiddy
I first read it in the complete short story collection.
Has all the stories he’d write for magazines.
Has all the stories he’d write for magazines.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 1:38 pm to Gerry Laval
I need to go back and re-read a bunch of them to figure this out.
Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions all stick out to me. But I've read a bunch of others and don't remember the particulars. I think I liked Bluebeard a lot.
Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions all stick out to me. But I've read a bunch of others and don't remember the particulars. I think I liked Bluebeard a lot.
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