I agree that everyone should try and read Vonnegut but don't expect everyone to enjoy it or find in it the awakening I sure did. I think his writing really cli

I agree that everyone should try and read Vonnegut but don't expect everyone to enjoy it or find in it the awakening I sure did. I think his writing really clicks with a particular type of person at a particular time in their life; if either is not quite right it seems reactions range from disinterest to hostility. I discovered Sirens of Titan and Player Piano in high school and loved them immediately (unlike so much assigned reading) but I'm not sure I'd feel the same if I was to read them for the first time at this stage in my life. For instance, I still enjoy re-reading Hocus Pocus or Jailbird but not so much Slaughterhouse Five. I can't precisely say why, but so it goes...