you'd better be smoking pall malls!

I read quite a fair bit of material (mainly how-to and scientific stuff), but I've never heard of the guy. I feel pretty amazing right now. Any recommendations?

don't admit that to anyone in real life (seriously).

WWII in reverse from "slaughterhouse-five" is still one of my favorite scenes in all of literature...!

"slaughterhouse 5" is my favorite (and no doubt others' favorite, too). the narrator survived the firebombing of dresden in WWII (as KV did), and tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, who survived the war and went on to get "unstuck in time," bouncing back and forth.

"cat's cradle" is a classic - a religion called Bokononism and a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature, threatening the world.

"mother night" - the story of an american nazi propagandist after WWII.

I've never heard anyone talk about him either, so it hasn't happened. I just found out who Chuck Pal-whatever is... I guess I just don't get into talking about popular writers and such.

On another reading tangent, I just read Catcher in the Rye and made it about 20-some pages in before quitting on it. I missed out on that one, I would have loved it if I read it when I was like 13 or so. Directly after, I read an experiment where a guy interviewed a person from practically every profession to gauge how they felt about their work and analyzed their stress/depression levels. That was an amazing read.

i like peeing, have you read Catch-22 by joseph heller?

Nope. That's the thing, I have zero interest in reading these books...I wish I did, but I just don't.

I love the end of one of the articles quoted him as saying he'd like to commit suicide like Hemingway but doesn't want to set a bad example for his children. haha. I think "Man Without a Country" was a great way for him to end his writing career and as he put it's success in another interview "a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life". I'd have to say my favorites of his are "Mother Night" and "Bluebeard"

that's fair, i didn't mean for it to come off all superior-sounding. there's plenty of popular **** i havent heard of. i just meant that some people judge others based on that sort of thing. in general these people's respect doesn't mean much, but it's often just easier not to give them ammo.

regardless, vonnegut's works are great. breakfast of champions might be my favorite.

i LOVE catch 22. most of the people i reccomend it to start it and never finish. makes no sense to me, i was hooked by the end of the first chapter. the only book that made me laugh audibly while i was reading it.

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Not looking for anyone's respect, I'm stoked on that... most people say I'm on some other level **** anyway. I say a lot of things I don't realize are ridiculous/snide/stupid/ignorant and I guess I don't really care either way...if people take two seconds to get to know me, we're doin fine. This upcoming pretzel ride, I'll ask everyone who Vonnegut is just for you.

Oddly enough, recently I started borrowing books from a friend who has read absolutely everything, and he was about to give me Catch 22...we're both curious what I'd be like if I was hip with famous literature.

man, back in high school, I wrote my Junior thesis on the insanity/inanity of war as depicted in Slaughterhouse 5 and Catch-22. Easiest 15 pages I ever wrote.

Kilgore Trout will be missed.

Kurt is up in heaven now.

That one is for you Kurt ;)

Been trying to stay out of it...but here's to K.V. :beer:


One of the best that ever tackled speculative fiction ever. A unique voice. Don't call it a shame unless you've read all of his works twice (with comprehension).

now, doing that with any author is quite a feat!

He'd be laughing at that comment, for sure.

This is my first pack of them in a while.

I used to smoke them more because most kids wouldn't bum them, thinking they were gross.

"can i bum a smoke?"
sure, they're pall malls.
"oh. I'll get one from someone else"

Galapagos was the first book of his I ever read, I guess that would explain why it was the only book of his I ever read.

Galapagos was amazing and completely unappreciated by most.

Sad x 12. And I had just finished The Sirens of Titan for the second time.

we need more people like that. not less. he's gone and so many other *******s are still here...perhaps there is no god?

a good man. we need more like that.