why do you hate vonnegut

nice meme.

I don't. Vonnegut gets a bad rap by people who only scratch the surface. Everyone calls him a science fiction author but he's really a satirist. Vonnegut takes concepts like religion and empathy and takes a giant shit on them by portraying them with these wild, fantastical stories. He does it so well that half the time people don't realize he's taking the piss in the first place. I know people who take the religion from Cat's Cradle seriously. Vonnegut is wildly underrated for what he did and he deserves his place in the canon if Camus does.

>>8395333
thank you. i found it earlier today, gave me a hearty chuckle.

>>8395336
I don't see how his view on empathy is satirical. But yes, Vonnegut is good. Great, even.

>>8395328
he's 'reddit: the author' so he's easy pickings for /lit/ pseuds

>>8395464
Yeah, basically this. He reads like an autistic STEM-tard.

>>8395464
do you think people should disregard him or at least read him and move on. thoughts on science fiction?

>>8395495
well worth a read if you're getting into lit, read and move on.

>>8395495
science fiction is some nice futurology/societal philosophy with a lot of genre fiction in the worst sense
the better scifi is, the more is there of the former and the less of the latter
some big writers are worth reading, most are not