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04-25-2010 07:58 PM #7402
04-25-2010 09:14 PM #7403
Do I want to know?
Spoiler:"May your luck rise, Roland" -Cuthbert Allgood
04-25-2010 09:25 PM #7404
04-25-2010 09:38 PM #7405
Oh man! I just had to hold a conference call! Too funny man."May your luck rise, Roland" -Cuthbert Allgood
04-25-2010 11:56 PM #7406
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
04-26-2010 12:14 AM #7407
04-26-2010 05:54 AM #7408
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
04-26-2010 05:57 AM #7409
started "eyes of the dragon" yesterday. i'm about 1/4 of the way through...solid book. i was gonna start "boy's life", but my sister likes to take my books and movies from me without asking. most of my book collection is at her apartment, somehow.
04-26-2010 03:32 PM #7410Rabid Billybumbler
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04-26-2010 04:16 PM #7413
Heather,
So far I am enjoying it. It is quite disturbing though. I will say that I really have no idea where he's going with the story, so that makes it more interesting. I just got past the part where:
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So, yeah, I'm enjoying it. Thanks for asking!"May your luck rise, Roland" -Cuthbert Allgood
04-26-2010 04:32 PM #7414
Man, finally, Lisey's Story has started to get into a story with some meat on it.Spoiler:
I was about to give up.
Slaughter-house-five isn't bad. This is my only Vonnegut so far. Can anyone tell me if this crazy flash forward/backwar/sideways style is prominent in all of his books. It's very distracting from his otherwise very readable style.Sloth Love Chunk
04-26-2010 07:47 PM #7415Gunslinger Apprentice
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Slaughterhouse 5 is by far the most strangely written KV novel. Only Breakfast of Champions really gives it a run for its money in terms of out and out weird. For more normal KV books which are excellent try Mother Night, Galapagos or Cat's Cradle. His later books often find him repeating themes a lot and should be saved for last (aside from the aforementioned Galapagos). Slaughterhouse 5 is one of his great books but it's not particularly the best place to start.
04-26-2010 07:51 PM #7416Rabid Billybumbler
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The best Vonnegut novel is Cat's Cradle.
Mother Night is also regarded as one of his better works, but I've never had the opportunity to read it.
04-26-2010 07:53 PM #7417
Thanks for the info Kronz, Slaughterhouse 5 is enjoyable, but I don't like the plot device of the main character being at all times in his life at once. Everytime I start to get into a part, it switches to something completely different.
In fact, Monty Python keeps coming to mind....."And now for something completely different"
SH-5 was recommended to me by someone I work with who's favorite author is KV. I had never even heard of KV before this guy tried to turn me on to it. I asked him where I should start, and he insisted on SH-5.Sloth Love Chunk
04-26-2010 08:13 PM #7418Gunslinger Apprentice
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Well as far as a lot of literary types are concerned, the weirder and more symbolic a book, the better. I don't fall for that trick, I like to understand what I've read. SH5 takes the most work to sort out and is more surreal than Vonnegut usually is. His books are almost all weird, but he has at least one straightforward novel in Mother Night, a brilliant and depressing novel about a Nazi war criminal hiding in the States (probably a major influence on Apt Pupil actually).
04-27-2010 10:33 AM #7419
Oh, you guys are making me want to go back and reread Vonnegut again. It's been a loooong time.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
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04-27-2010 12:28 PM #7420
Hey, BTW, JB; thanks so much for also pushing your love of them onto me! Yeah, it's a great thriller. Hope you like the way it turns out! Then you can watch the movie and be in with those of us who understand how inferior it is to King's novella. Oh, I loved that. Not the main thing that makes that book so good, but still...
I'm real sorry to hear that it just bugs you.
04-27-2010 01:21 PM #7421
I want to read some more Vonnegut. I've only read Sirens of Titan by him, which I enjoyed immensely. I'm thinking I'll pick up either Mother Night or Slaughterhouse-Five next.
04-27-2010 05:50 PM #7422"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
04-27-2010 05:56 PM #7423
What is ASOIAF?Sloth Love Chunk
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