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Agree. It's just not a very good Vonnegut novel though. You can see him without (yet) a voice in the novel. If "Breakfast of Champions" is a little too nutty t
by JKCalhoun 10mo ago
Agree. It's just not a very good Vonnegut novel though. You can see him without (yet) a voice in the novel.
If "Breakfast of Champions" is a little too nutty though, I think I might like his "Mother Night" best. (But maybe we like nutty Kurt?)
- dillydogg 10mo agoI think "Hocus Pocus" is his best, followed by "Cat's Cradle". But how lucky are we to have so many good ones to pick from?
- JKCalhoun 10mo agoThanks. Hocus Pocus slipped past me somehow. Now I have something to look forward to reading. (I liked Cat's Cradle too but it is also on the loopier end of Vonnegut's writing spectrum—but we need some more of that.)
- ProllyInfamous 10mo ago>Hocus Pocus I read this during the same time I was copyediting a good friend's Vietnam memoir. As a staff sargeant [E6], my buddy saw/did some things — including lobbing a girl's head off as she stepped in front of his rocket trajectory — but we both crossed eyes when I explained what the calculation on the last page of HP resulted in: survivor's remorse of rape & pillaging. How many little half-Sargeants must being running around 'Nam...
- jandrese 10mo agoMother Night is the book that has become more relevant every year since it was published, in 1962. Every time someone is an "Ironic Nazi" online I think of that book, and how 4chan evolved into the modern political juggernaut it is today.
- beardbound 10mo agoMother night was my favorite Vonnegut book.