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ThaNarc

He’s always been an author I’ve been meaning to read up on, but have only recently found the time to. And I’m really digging his work. His sardonic wit is sometimes subtle, sometimes not, very not. And I like how he uses his books as vehicles to throw out other story ideas he has through his alter-ego Kilgore Trout. Now I’ve read “Timequake”, “JailBird”, and “Breakfast of Champions”. Anyone more versed in his work have any suggestions for what I should read next? Excluding Slaughterhouse 5, which I know is suppose to be a classic, but which I have decided to read after I’ve read through most of his other works.

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JimmySnook

I picked up a copy of "Welcome To The Monkey House" for 50 cents a while back. It's a collection of bizzare short stories. One of the most entertaining reads I've had in a long time at any price.

imported_Pufnstuf

God Bless you Mr Rosewater......

lazitroll

I want to read Slaughterhouse 5. I've always wanted to read his stuff but I haven't gotten the chance yet.

Yeah I'm going to get this next week and start on it.

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couchlock

I just got into Vonnegut a a couple weeks ago and so far have read:

Breakfast of Champions
Galapagos
Slaughterhouse Five

The interesting part about his novels, is that he reuses many characters and minor incidents throughout many of his novels. It's cool to read a novel, and then read another one and see a character pop-up again, or a past event mentioned.

I found Galapagos to be really great. The main concept is that, a group of people get stranded on the Galapagos Islands, and meanwhile the entire human species is wiped out by war or disease or both. So the whole human race is reduced to a handful of survivors on the galapagos. A million years laterr they evolve freakishly due to the extreme ecosystem.

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Calories

I've read Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse 5 and Cat's Cradle and they're definetly up there among my favorites of all time.
Excellent, unique writing. For other fans of his i'd reccomend Joseph Heller who has a similiarly unique writing style.

GreatGatsby

CAT'S CRADLE.

imo, his best work by miles. He's a Hoosier too, born in Naptown! His grandson was actually in my Freshman english class in high school.

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TheEndHasNoEnd

Not too fond of how he writes, in like a letter to someone form.

I think Kerouac and Thomas Wolfe are much more talented authors.

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timiscute

I've only read Slaughterhouse 5 from him and I liked it alot more than i was expecting to. I also saw a performance of some of the short stories from welcome to the monkey house which was totally badass. I was told he has a book called cat's cradle which someone told me is his best, but i donno i gotta check it out.

i agree with theend....kerouac is the man. On the Road is one of the best books I've ever read.

~Timmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Herbania

"Mogambo snuff box" is a collection of some of his short stories that I enjoyed.

I like Vonnegut. I dont think he's less talented than Wolfe or Kerouac. Vonnegut has a thing about compound and complex sentences, most English proffesors are the same way. He doesn't use them unless absolutely needed, if at all. That's why he comes off as simple to some people I think.