What is your opinion on Kurt Vonnegut?

>>9423009
Harrison Bergeron was good, but I didn't like his novels.
I was also very young when I read HB, so I don't know if I'd still like it.

One good book.

>>9423009
Good YA writer

>>9423009
middlebrow af

banal and heaven handed moral messages (dude war is bad lmao), "zany" humor that's firmly reddit-core

I still like him because he was the first author my brother introduced me to in high school that got me into actual reading other than class assignments. He's not some untouchable titan of prose but he's a good storyteller who I think captures the "old man looking back at his youth and pointing out the issues in themselves and their own society" narrator perfectly.
More recently I read through a bunch of his short stories, and in my opinion his style lends itself better to those than to novels.

>>9423029
Have you read Thomas Edison's Shaggy Dog? It's one of his better short stories.

Pretty good, his characters seem kind of fake/robotic though. Especially in The Sirens of Titan.

>>9423065
that's because they are. writers who approach art from the stance of some didactic moralizer who's setting out to prove "a point," as vonnegut does, rarely write characters that move beyond being caricatures that have been informed entirely by the author's warped and limited worldview. it's strawman virtue signalling.

I'm bored with the "I'm totally a Socialist" Anglophones, like Orwell Vonnegut turned out to privately very conservative.

>>9423009
I read 3-4 of his books when I was inna early 20s. He's a good bloke, and a veteran. Aces.

>>9423198
you read at a 7th grade level

>>9423207
nah m8 i read ur mums pussy lips last night

fortune sez ur mums gonna die tonight better get a job eh

>>9423009
He's an author firmly rooted in his style which can make his work stumble or shine but is usually predictable. I would say he is quite good but he's not one of the best. I'll still try to read his works and recommend them to other people. His book Galapagos is what really got me into reading along with a couple of other books which were Waiting for Godot and The Sound of The Mountain.

>>9423229
Galapagosbro you are correct. Vonnegut is not GREAT, but he has some solid works under him. Not all of his novels are really worth reading but some are can't miss.

eh, i liked slaughterhouse 5, read it when i was 17 though.

>>9423009
vonnegut like hesse is a really good lost early teen to mid twenty something author