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That's interesting -- not that you don't know who Vonnegut is (though that IS interesting) but that you thought it was hard to read. I mean, to each his own of
by bmelton 17y ago
That's interesting -- not that you don't know who Vonnegut is (though that IS interesting) but that you thought it was hard to read. I mean, to each his own of course, but at least to me, Vonnegut has always been one of the authors whose works were easiest for me to consume.
- ars 17y agoWould you like a line by line analysis? "Not every story has that very simple, very pretty shape that even a computer can understand" What very simple shape? He hasn't said a shape, he laid out the graph, but that doesn't change per story. I had no idea what he was talking about here. "so start your story up here" I'm writing a story? Oh, didn't realize that, maybe you should have said something. I backtracked two paragraphs and re-read it, now that I know this. "Now, I don’t mean to intimidate you, but after being a chemist as an undergraduate at Cornell, after the war I went to the University of Chicago and studied anthropology, and eventually I took a masters degree in that field." I guess this is informal, but the grammar connecting the two "afters" is strange. Was this transcribed from someone speaking? It make a bit more sense if it was, because as writing it's kinda bad. BTW, just because this was hard to read doesn't mean his books are. I probably never read his stuff because I'm not a big fan of satire.
- Semiapies 17y agoIt's an informal style of another era. That's one of the harder things to read if you're unfamiliar with the style.