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I clicked on the link to "Cat's Cradle." That looks like a really cool book!
by gwbas1c 6y ago
I clicked on the link to "Cat's Cradle." That looks like a really cool book!
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoCouldn't say I liked Cat's Cradle but Slaughterhouse 5 was one of the best and most moving books I've ever read. I guess try them both and decide.
- sixstringtheory 6y agoHighly recommend. It’s a good intro book to Vonnegut, the other being Slaughterhouse 5. Or maybe those are just my favorites! Very effective mixes of comedy and tragedy, prose that borders on poetry at times, very imaginative concepts. He’s able to walk you over that threshold of disbelief almost before you even realize it.
- MengerSponge 6y agoWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of excellent short stories that includes "Harrison Bergeron". "The Euphio Question" haunts me to this day
- jdoliner 6y agoHighly recommend it, it's got cool scifi elements but isn't hard scifi with a lot of world building. The story telling is great though, it's funny and poignant. One of the few books I've read multiple times.
- MengerSponge 6y agoYep. It's brutal satire, not hard scifi.
- anarbadalov 6y agoi wish i could read this again for the first time. so much brilliance in these pages, and a perfect reflection of Vonnegut's bizarre imagination.
- gwbas1c 6y agoNote: I made this comment when this thread linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater instead of the current page.
- twic 6y agoIt's great. Player Piano is another of Vonnegut's books i really like.
- dekhn 6y agoI think the most underrated is Sirens of Titan. It's a bit strange and convoluted.