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Re-reading Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle after being in Silicon Valley after a while really illuminated the character-type I found myself surrounded by: emotionally d
by marnett 7y ago
Re-reading Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle after being in Silicon Valley after a while really illuminated the character-type I found myself surrounded by: emotionally detached geniuses absentmindedly ruining the world.
His style of storytelling is just great. He leaves so much off the page with his short style that at the end you get that feeling you’ve experienced something profound that can’t quiet be put into words.
- notjustanymike 7y agoPlayer Piano is a great read for that as well
- cookie_monsta 7y agoAnything by Vonnegut is worth a look
- pengaru 7y agoThere are a bunch of short earlier works when he was writing for something like Women's Home Journal to pay the bills that one wouldn't go wrong skipping IMHO.
- cookie_monsta 7y agoHaha. Ok - probably some of his primary school poetry isn't required reading either ;)
- JacobDotVI 7y agoPlayer Piano is such a good read today - puts all of automation fears and UBI arguments in the context of these are the same fears we have with every new technology.
- JKCalhoun 7y agoI came to "Player Piano" after having read a half dozen other Vonnegut books. It clearly shows him at his earliest — trying to find his voice.
- yamoriyamori 7y agoSirens of Titan, and will echo Cat's Cradle. In hindsight, it was such an odd realization to me, after being forced to read Slaughterhouse Five (and hated it) in high school, but then independently discovering and loving his other sci-fi/Absurdity heavy novels and how refreshing they were. And I might have missed them completely if I had been too stubborn.
- tootie 7y agoLove all his work. Mother Night might be my favorite "You are what you pretend to be" Timequake is also amazing. "Life is just for farting around and don't let anyone tell you different"