Slaughterhouse Five

>>9312011
There's always fucking aliens in his books.

>>9312011
Read The Sirens of Titan now.

Poo-too-tweet?

Is the alien part really weirder than the war part?

>>9312011
Vonnegut's Tralfamadorians usually face some kind of problem with reality. In SH5, it's Predestination.

>>9312011
think of them as a framing device especially if you're going to pull the narratology argument with it, otherwise they provide a few good jokes and maintain a weird sense of sstructure to the book (again more on this in the narratology)

>>9312045
also a thing

>>9312134
whoah

Is Vonnegut a meme or should I read one of his books over spring break (also which one to start with?)

>>9312652
No he isn't, Slaughterhouse or Breakfast of Champions

>>9312680
>Breakfast of Champions
this was terrible, i don't usually drop books 2/3 the way though but i couldn't finish it. cat's cradle and slaughterhouse five had enough interesting stuff going on but this was 100% snarky reddit humor

>>9312652
He's a meme who i personally am not a huge fan of but he's still worth a read. Just do slaughterhouse 5 or Breakfast of Champions. I hated Cat's Cradle so much I put it down halfway through which is something I never do.

>>9312652
read him if you are in high school.

>>9312011
>besides just representing the escapism of a broken soldier
Ugh I hate these shallow psychological explanations. It's pretty obvious the Trafalmadorians are real in SH5. They have a different perception of time than humans which allows Vonnegut to tackle the idea of time in a radically different way ('so it goes'). It has nothing to do with escapism, stop projecting your shallow life on a great book.

>>9313947
Fuck you guy.

>>9313983
did you read him first in hs?

>>9313959
Idk why you think that is obvious; there seemed to be plenty of hints (traumatic head injury, the fact that everything he "experienced" was pulled from Trout novels) that the Tralfamadorians. Sure Conneaut uses non-linear narrative structure but that doesn't prove shit

>>9314084
*Tralfamadorians were figments of Billy's imagination

>>9312652
Player piano is very good

>>9313947
Yeah this. He's like entry level Pynchon tbqh.

>>9314452
That's giving him toooooooOOOOOOooooooOOOO much credit desu senpai

>>9313911
Cat's cradle was really easy to read, what didn't you like about it?

what a lucky pony