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"How awesome is Kurt Vonnegut" thread
Schmendrick:
I saw this and I think I am in love with Dr Jason for starting it!
I think that Kilgore Trout is an amazing character and Omnicide I understand what you mean by him being too close to the Vonnegut himself, but I find that most good authors, whether they mean to or not, put a biographical element into their works because afterall when you write you should write about something you know to make people understand it better and what do you know better then your own emotions and your own self?
Vonnegut uses comedy in the way that comedy is used in so much of life. He uses it as kind of release. You are laughing at his writing and suddenly you realize how perfectly tragic it is. I know when I'm upset I tend to laugh at my problems because facing them head on is much too intimidating.
Hat:
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat ---Good or bad thing about him is if you've read one KV book, they are all pretty much the same.
--- End quote ---
Because a story about the chance meeting of a science fiction author and an insane used car salesman is pretty much the same as a story about the entire planet repeating their lives, and a story about the journey of an ex-billionare around the solar system as a result of bizzare "coincidences" etc etc.
I mean, stylistically, he is pretty consistant, and in Slaughter-House 5, he toys with some ideas that are also in Time Quake, but considering how deranged his novel plots are, its a bit silly to say they're all the same.
Also I read Welcome To The Monkey House a few weeks ago and it was pretty awesome, but did anyone find it weird that there are all these fantastic, bizzare stories, and smack bang in the middle is just one of the sweetest love stories you've ever read?
Chesire Cat:
No, I am very definately saying stylistically the books are all the same. They are good books, but you arent going to be as wowed by any of his books as by the first one you read. Doesn't really matter which.
*VERY* Tom Robbins esque.
rive gauche:
Tom Robbins is just a Kurt Vonnegut wannabe.
He is pretty nifty too, though.
butmyrobotloves:
Vonnegut always remains one of my favorites, mostly because I know that I'll fall in love with whatever writing of his I pick up.
This comic actually explains why I love Kurt Vonnegut pretty accurately.
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