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"How awesome is Kurt Vonnegut" thread

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Dr Jason:
I thought there needed to be a thread to discuss this man, his books, and his awesomeness.

Ravenbomb:
awesome to the amount of 9

Reidonius:
Whoa, what a coincidence. I just read Slaughterhouse-Five for the second time and am now reading Cat's Cradle. I'm just kind of in a Vonnegut mood so I think I'll tackle Galapagos again soon. He is teh awesome ;)

Inlander:
Slaughterhouse 5 is amazing.  I'd just started reading Breakfast of Champions when I left the bag in which I was carrying it at a friend's house.  That was last November and I haven't been able to get it back yet - very frustrating!

The most brilliant thing about Slaughterhouse 5, at least from a writer's point of view, is the way Vonnegut manages to re-sensitise the reader to the violence depicted in the novel.  We're so used to reading about people being killed that we tend to skim over it - by saying simply "So it goes" every time somebody is killed in the novel it snaps the reader's attention back to just how much pointless violence there is in the world.  At first you get sick of that same phrase being repeated over and over, but after a while you start to join the dots and connect the phrase to the death of a character (or, comically, an inaminate object) - and it starts to hit you just how much tragedy and death there is beneath the fantastical surface of the novel.  It's a masterful trick.

Chesire Cat:
Good or bad thing about him is if you've read one KV book, they are all pretty much the same.

Its like Tim Robbins, the first Tim Robbins book is etheral experience, then you read a second one and ask yourself... Is this a sequal with completely different characters in completely different settings somehow doing hte same thing.  Its a little like Lost, except Lost is what happens to all the Tim Robbins chars.

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