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>>8735612

>>8735612
I wasn't super into it but overall I enjoyed it

a bit weak in terms of prose but still great

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>>8735612
He essentially writes the same book over and over, wry, darkly humorous resignation in the face of catastrophe. Of the some dozen iterations of his singular theme this is probably the best one, or Cat's Cradle if you are more into science fiction and less into historical fiction.

Either way, if you haven't felt yourself outgrowing him by the time you are 22-24 you should reexamine your life.

>>8735696
>if you haven't felt yourself outgrowing him by the time you are 22-24 you should reexamine your life
This.

>>8735612
Vonnegut is good, and him having some obnoxious hipster fans doesn't mean he shouldn't rest on his own merits and that doesn't mean /lit/ should judge him based on some of his fans, but it doesn't stop them from doing so.

It's like: instead of substantively and thoughtfully explaining this and this and this is what I didn't like about Mother Night, I'll just post this compilation image of lame hipsters' Vonnegut tattoos and mercilessly hate on him because of that.

/lit/ really is truly garbage.

>>8735761
Who even reads enough Vonnegut to get to the dregs like Mother Night before getting completely bored by his style and dropping him.

I read three of his books when I was 17-18 and will probably never read another.

>>8735612
I like Vonnegut, but I find his cheap cynicism tiring

ez 4 ENCE

>>8735612
The firebombing of Dresden in reverse was good. The rest of the novel was mediocre.

>>8735996
>>8735696
People who think that Vonnegut is either cheaply cynical or immature have to go and re-examine their life.

Slaughterhouse-Five, after all, contains the widest view of a single life condensed into some of the simplest prose out there. I don't understand how people could think Vonnegut was being merely fatalistic and apocalyptic when, even amidst the irony, he's constantly depicting Billy Pilgrim's mature acceptance of fate. And unlike other books that are merely ironic without any proper grasp of their theme, he does it from solid character axioms.

>>8736052
>mature acceptance of fate
How did you manage to misread this hard?
He's not "mature", he was shellshocked so hard he couldn't conceive of time anymore. The only way he can deal with the inhumanity he witnessed ("it was like the surface of the moon") is to project it onto literal aliens for whom the very concepts of agency and morality are nonsense.

Vonnegut is like the shitty cuck brother to Joseph Heller