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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 14, 2011 19:46:55 GMT -5
Okay, everyone, why do you love him so much? Or hate him? Either way, discuss him and his books! He is everywhere in this forum and I would like to know WHY. I have read half a book of his and don't see it, but I would like to know what I am missing!
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 14, 2011 19:54:02 GMT -5
With Slaughterhouse-Five, he turned the traditional notions of narrative, author, and genre on their heads. It's so, so, so amazing.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 14, 2011 21:38:09 GMT -5
She's reading Cat's Cradle and doesn't like it.
It baffles me how we became friends, by the by.
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 14, 2011 21:39:49 GMT -5
Slaughterhouse-Five is a more accessible starting point, I think (someone invent a time machine and go back to the 70's and tell Kurt Vonnegut that one day his work will be referred to as "accessible"), but I haven't read much of Cat's Cradle, although my friends all like it.
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 14, 2011 21:40:23 GMT -5
She's reading Cat's Cradle and doesn't like it. It baffles me how we became friends, by the by. Past tense: was reading. I still want to pick it back up and finish it, though. I will probably try Slaughterhouse Five, since that is his big one, but I don't know when. I liked the first half of Cat's Cradle, but I also felt that I was just putting up with the author's attempts at being edgy. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 14, 2011 21:44:23 GMT -5
Other authors attempt to be edgy. Vonnegut just was.
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 14, 2011 21:50:05 GMT -5
All I could get out of it was Vonnegut going "lololol look at me trying to be edgy. Isn't this cool?" and me going "I C WHUT U DID THAR." Again, I will wait to hate until I've tried Slaughterhouse Five, but I feel that he was too showy with his edge.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 14, 2011 21:50:51 GMT -5
All I could get out of it was Vonnegut going "lololol look at me trying to be edgy. Isn't this cool?" Again, I will wait to hate until I've tried Slaughterhouse Five, but I feel that he was too showy with his edge. But...it's Vonnegut.... |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 14, 2011 21:59:46 GMT -5
All I could get out of it was Vonnegut going "lololol look at me trying to be edgy. Isn't this cool?" Again, I will wait to hate until I've tried Slaughterhouse Five, but I feel that he was too showy with his edge. But...it's Vonnegut.... Your logic confuses me. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 14, 2011 22:00:37 GMT -5
Read him and you will understand. |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 14, 2011 22:05:27 GMT -5
Read him and you will understand. I have, and I'm not saying that half a book makes me all knowledgeable in Vonnegut but I.don't.get.it. Maybe he would be better as a class? But I am not sure that I want him shoved down my throat. Again, I didn't start this thread as a way to express my dislike. I want to hear why people like him! But I want to hear more than just "it's Vonnegut, bitch." |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 14, 2011 22:10:17 GMT -5
But...it's Vonnegut. ...bitch.  Why do I like Vonnegut? I'm not sure. Mostly because it's like nothing I've read before. It's nice, direct, and madness. I like that. Also, were our school to offer Vonnegut as a class, I might die from sheer glee. |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 14, 2011 22:12:24 GMT -5
But...it's Vonnegut. ...bitch. Why do I like Vonnegut? I'm not sure. Mostly because it's like nothing I've read before. It's nice, direct, and madness. I like that. Also, were our school to offer Vonnegut as a class, I might die from sheer glee. If he didn't have a class to himself, what class would he fit in? Actually, now that I think of this, I may have seen him required for one of the American Lit classes...maybe 1960 - present? I will go check. EDIT: nope, no sign in the fall handout of him. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 14, 2011 22:22:11 GMT -5
I first encountered him in my Postmodern Fiction course.
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Post by Silva on Jun 14, 2011 22:27:01 GMT -5
We read Slaughterhouse-Five in American Lit in 11th grade... I greatly enjoyed it. I really liked the way he toyed with time....
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