What's /lit/'s opinion of Kurt Vonnegut?

HE thinks he's funny and a biting satirist, emphasis on the he. He also reeks of communism and socialism. Early works are his best.

>>8775587
we used to love him

He's the thinking man's Douglas Adams.

Favorite author of that time

>>8775587
Gay nerd. He probably looked at naked pictures of men when he was alone

>>8775655
I concur

Vonnegut is literally the reddit of authors

just finished breakfast of champions and its not good. he repeats 2 or 3 jokes for 200 pages. thats the book. actually i liked the plot, but everything else sucked. kurt self inserting himself is kind of interesting but it doesn't lead to anything. makes me wanna reconsider my stance on slaughterhouse5 which i liked. or maybe BoC is just a worse novel? should i read more? what should i read next?

>>8776946

I'm reading his entire collection because I am a fan, but goddamn I can not finish BoC; maybe too meta for me but it just didn't keep my interest long.

Reading his letters completely changed my opinion of him, the guy was privately very conservative.

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>>8775587
He's my favorite author but I bare in mind that his books can be hit and miss. Slapstick was pretty shit for example. Out of his good books none will top Slaughterhouse5.

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>>8775587
lel so it goes XD

used to love his stuff, but then I turned 20.

>>8775587
>reading the written Jew

>>8775587
I've only read Cat's Cradle which was frankly crap. He seems incapable of writing a human being or making a point that's not 'lol so randumb'. It was like reading Dick, but awful.

>>8777864
>i turned 20
Not very long ago, I see.

>>8777716
What's so good about Slaughterhouse?

I'm like 100 pages into it and it's just some reddit-tier shit so far about his time in the war and then writing about some priest who crashes in a plane and starts talking about aliens.

>>8778054
Now ur a top tier satirist!

self-important and lacking much depth, but a decent author for a bathroom read