Huh. Never thought about it like that.

It's some dude's sexual fantasy when lying in the sand in some desert in the middle east 2K years ago

It's amazing it actually made it up to today

Imagine your fantasies being read as religious books n 2K years

t's crazee

Making the wife so salty is defo a divorced dad move.

I just finished Slaughterhouse 5. Don't get the appeal at all. The writing style is great but the story. I don't know, maybe this was mind-blowing in 1969 but in 2021 I don't give a ****.

I liked Slaughterhouse Five. I think Breakfast of Champions is better though if you're into Vonnegut.

I said this to some co-workers and they recommended Cat's Cradle. I think I read "Welcome to the Monkey House" back in Middle school but had no idea wtf was going on. I guess I could try these again.

That's interesting! I had the opposite reaction: I wanted to know more about the Dresden firestorm and got irritated with Vonnegut's intrusive style getting in the way.
One conclusion we both agree on, Big3: "Don't get the appeal." That was also my reaction to that other must-read book of the 60s with a number in its title: Catch-22.
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I'm probably enjoying this book because it confirms what I previously thought: how spurious conspiracy theories usually are.
Voodoo Histories begins with the First World War, which makes a bit of a dull start to the book, but it picks up as it advances through McCarthyism to JFK and the section I've just reached: the death of Lady Di.
Interesting statistic: there are "700 or so biographies of Marylin Monroe". And for us lot? Will any of us get even a single biography? I feel so depressed, I'm going to play The Staunton Lick to cheer myself up - or better still, every song so far in this thread:-

https://www.musicbanter.com/general-...teful-day.html ("songs to make you grateful for the day")

Kurt Vonnegut is one of my Top 3 writers of all time actually.

His style is just over perfect and his imagination infinite
Rarely does the written word inspire such reactions from me

Yeah I like BoC a little better too but both are excellent works and the pinnacle of his oeuvre I think.

He's not for everyone I guess (who is?), although I would say he is quite easy to read and like, if you get his sense of humour.