What do you think of Vonnegut?

wrote one good book.

>>9018850
I like what I've read so far:
Cat's Cradle
Slaughterhouse Five
and about half the stories in Welcome to the Monkey House.
I'm reading Player Piano now and I am enjoying it. I also think it's relevant in light of the recent U. S. election and the importance of manufacturing jobs in it.

>>9018850
He's pretty hit or miss. I love Slaughterhouse 5, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. Most of his other stuff is decent, but some of his later books are thinly veiled rants disguised as novels (Slapstick and Timequake)

>>9018850
I read Sirens of Titan recently, I really enjoyed it. Was recommended by a friend to read it, he said to read Player Piano too.

>>9018850
(((meh)))

>>9018853
As someone who's read nearly his entire oeuvre this is unfortunately true. Slaughterhouse and Cats cradle were important because of their social commentary but if we're being honest most of the rest can be skipped unless you want more of that.

>>9018853
Went through a Vonnegut phase and I agree. S5 is good, skip the rest.

Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse-Five are pretty enjoyable. Some of his other stuff is hit or miss though.

>>9018853
Come now, he has at least two with S5 and Sirens of Titan

>>9018850
I've read Mother Night and I didn't enjoy it much at all. Haven't bothered reading anything else of his.

>>9018850
Sirens is his only genuinely good work. It's his least smug and doesn't lean on personality to make its ideas appealing.
Slaughterhouse was fun but it's only real virtue is brevity.
His smugness borderlines arrogance too often for my taste. He has some neato ideas but neato expires quickly. I like Vonnegut, but he's constantly challenging that

>>9018860
Player Piano was crap. And I'm not just saying that as a manufacturing major and machinist; it would have been fine as an exaggerated examination of America's future but he treated it like it was prophetic. The Indian ambassador guy was ham-fisted and the writing was less than graceful. It would have been a lot more likeable if he didn't take it seriously.

>>9018850
Mildly amusing every once in a while, occasionally moving, but mostly juvenile in a grating way. Best read sparingly if at all.

>>9020667
Mother Night took itself a lot more seriously than most of his other books did, which was awkward to read with how sloppy his storytelling as a whole tends to be. Try Slaughterhouse five.

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>>9018850
Vonnegut is a really good writer but at the same time his primary audience is people aged 16-25, usually males. A lot of people dislike him for that reason which is fuckin dumb but whatever