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| Discussion: Kurt Vonnegut Pages: 1 2 I too have read most of KV's books but it has been many years. I first read Breakfast of Champions after a friend threw a copy at me and said "you gotta read this guy." He was right. Reading your comments takes me back many years to a time when I spent hours being entertained and challenged by KV. Its tempting to re-read them but I'm wondering what I might learn about how my perspective has changed in twenty plus years...Anyway the question about Kilgore Trout... KV wrote a book using the name of Kilgore Trout. The book is called "Venus on the Half Shell". There may be others. There is a whole list of them on the "Other Books by KV page. It is about the Space Wanderer, a man without a planet who has gained immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with an alien queen in heat.... >>By Legend7 Hmmm. I am a Space Wanderer, and I have drunk elixirs during sexual interludes with alien queens, but still find myself burdened with mortality. Thanks for the heads-up on Venus on the Half Shell. >>By Seward3 Another oldie chimes in. All I remember is the sarcasm I liked at the time. I remember the planet where everyone was in prison, all the outsiders were in. Totalitarianism defeated. Reminds me of this reality: - http://www.aussiereviews.com/article1277.html p.s. Botticelli's Venus is the best painting I have seen. >>By flamencoprof pps ZpoonZ stardust by neil gaiman can somebody reccomend me something else? If your'e still about, try A. A. Aattanasio (he/she's not just a scam to get top of the list) >>By flamencoprof Typo, that's Attanasio, not so many "a"s >>By flamencoprof Read almost al of them...but awhiile ago. Funny story - at music camp at age 15, and was playing footsey with some cute guy. I said "bokomaru beats sex" - and he got it! by the way, which town in upstate NY did he say was the armpit of the universe? I think I m living there. >>By elysealice player piano is my favorite novel by him. i love it and think it dwarfs others in the genre (especially Brave New World, Ugh! I hated that book), but it seems all the english teachers I have had, and people I know, prefer it to Player Piano(or haven't read it) in the Dystopian genre. Kurt Vonnegut is definitely in my top three, and Player Piano in my top 5, along with Mother Night. >>By jacquestrap I just like Vonnegut. His humour, his sarcasm, his ideas. Some years ago i was hooked by "cat's cradel", and still on. The wicked and enigmatic style makes me smile - sometimes it can be dangerous espacially in the metro.:))) if the guys got it wrong. :) People read Vonnegut. NATY >>By trilian every time i read another story by kurt vonnegut i'm completely blown away. . . the sirens of titan. . .is one of my favorite books. . .it's gorgeous. . .and makes me cry everytime i read it. . . even vonnegut's short stories amaze me. . .he is unmatched. . .in my humble opinion. . . if you like vonnegut check out this short story of his. . .'harrison bergeron'. . . http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html >>By drowninginflame i want to read a book from him, but i really don't know which is the best... or what are the books about... can someone tell me? >>By Nicholas Kurt Vonnegut is easily one of my favorite authors. You really cannot miss with any of his many books, almost all of them will make you want to go out and buy his whole body of work! Some of my favorites::: 1. Cats Cradle - I recommend this all the time to my friends, my copy is now well worked over from usage. Hilarious, poignant..will make you laugh, think, laugh, think.... 2. The Sirens of Titan - Another great book, cant miss...very weird 3. Breakfast of Champions (Goodbye Blue Monday!!) - Maybe start here, its the first one I read and look how I turned out!! Yay!! Look for good old Kilgore Trout, Mr. Rosewater, and others to show up in alot of his books! >>By Fluke I read Slaughterhouse 5 in high school when i should have been reading some boring novel in Lit class. Brilliant writer, love the black humour >>By partyman the first time i read KV's is in Indonesian translated time quake. The book seems easy to read but i knew i missed something. The second time i bought "cat's craddle" from a secondhand bookstore..in a pitiful condition..without a cover. Since it written in english, i was a bit confious 'bout the satire and sarcasm in it. It gave me an awareness of how americans deal with atomic bomb in a different way. Wish i know what had happened :) >>By ilen personally i perfer bluebeard and slaughterhouse-five. Breakfast of champions really wasnt vonneguts best work he could have done a better job with it. >>By Billy Pilgrim You are not logged in. To access all functionality, you can log in via Flork. Flork is a worldwide community of people who are interested in music, movies and books. As a Flork-User, you can participate in this and other discussions, meet new people and exchange messages with other members directly: www.flork.com |