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02-27-2007, 08:48 PM
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| | | kurt vonnegut.
What are your favourites? I didn't care for Breakfast of Champions but I thoroughly enjoyed Slaughterhouse-5. I'm about to start reading Hocus Pocus which is supposedly good. |
02-27-2007, 09:23 PM
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| | | i reallly need to get something of his, sci-fi is my sort of guilty pleasure genre, though it is nothing to be guilty about really but people tend to think of it as space opera. |
02-27-2007, 10:33 PM
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| | | I loved slaughterhouse five and mother night.
Hocus pocus wasn't very memorable for me. I'm thinking I might not have even finished reading it. :/
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02-27-2007, 10:51 PM
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| | | Cat's Cradle!
It's also all I've read of his, but whatever. It's a good book. |
02-27-2007, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Sonofagun Cat's Cradle!
It's also all I've read of his, but whatever. It's a good book. | yes, and there is one line in that book that has stuck with me to this day. I won't say it though in case anyone hasn't read it.
of course, all of his books are like that for me (except hocus pocus I guess). that is, there are always a couple of lines that really stick out and I always remember them.
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02-27-2007, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by herekitty yes, and there is one line in that book that has stuck with me to this day. I won't say it though in case anyone hasn't read it.
of course, all of his books are like that for me (except hocus pocus I guess). that is, there are always a couple of lines that really stick out and I always remember them. | But now I want to know! |
02-27-2007, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Sonofagun But now I want to know! | highlight to see: "no damn cat, and no damn cradle."
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02-27-2007, 11:21 PM
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| | | Makes sense to me. Now I want to reread it now that I've been thinking about it. |
02-28-2007, 12:00 AM
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| | | Slaughterhouse Five for me.
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02-28-2007, 12:43 AM
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| | | Slaughterhoues Five was the first of his that I read, and it remains one of my favorite books ever and my favorite book of his. I've read quite a few since then because I love his humor and writing so much, but none really compared to that one for me. I still need to read Mother Night and Welcome to the Monkey House.
Have any of you seen any of the movies that were made from his books? Are they any good?
On a side note, seeing him on the Daily Show was one of my favorite moments of that show. He was lovely, and you could see how in awe Jon Stewart was. Actually, Vonnegut and Tom Waits are the only people I've seen interviewed on that show to make Jon giddy and even nervous. It was good tv.
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02-28-2007, 01:17 AM
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Originally Posted by herekitty I loved slaughterhouse five and mother night. | Me, too. |
02-28-2007, 02:13 PM
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| | | galapagos was decent. |
02-28-2007, 03:57 PM
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| | | The only book of his I've read was Bluebeard and I really, really enjoyed it. I have to read Slaughterhouse Five for an English paper this semester though so let's see how it goes...
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02-28-2007, 04:00 PM
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| | | jailbird
god bless you mr rosewater
bluebeard
deadeye dick
oh man so many i looove him
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02-28-2007, 07:14 PM
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| | | slaughterhouse 5. boring choice but it's fucking great.
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02-28-2007, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by petals The only book of his I've read was Bluebeard and I really, really enjoyed it. I have to read Slaughterhouse Five for an English paper this semester though so let's see how it goes... |
Oh you will definately like it alot |
02-28-2007, 08:29 PM
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| | | I liked Mother Night best, then Slaughter House 5 a close second. I quite enjoyed Dead Eye Dick too. He's a good writer, I keep meaning to read more by him. |
02-28-2007, 08:36 PM
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| | | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian is my favorite of his...but I've always heard that is a pretty stange choice. It is the easiest for me to read because I can instantly grasp any reference he makes without having to read any further. |
03-02-2007, 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Destroyer Oh you will definately like it alot | Good to know 
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03-14-2007, 09:02 PM
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| | | The only two I've read were Slaughterhouse 5, which I wrote a big essay on for English at school, and Cat's Cradle, which I read recently and enjoyed a lot. I'd say cat's cradle was my favourite, but maybe that was because of having to break Slaughterhouse 5 down into horrible little bits for the essay. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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