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"How awesome is Kurt Vonnegut" thread

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no one special:
No one has mentioned Galapagos - I loved the hell out of that book.  

Also, Galapagos and Mother Night (the other Vonnegut book I have read) were pretty damn different.  Both were great books, though!

Omnicide:

--- Quote from: Schmendrick --- 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,

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I means what i says. Like Trout, Vonnegut come up with great plots, but I don't think he's particularly gifted at the sentence to sentence business of writing. He's fairly repetitous in his books, his characters are often one-dimensional misfits and his plots go out with a whimper. He's like Assimov- such an imagination but shoddy writing, in my own opinion, but that's the internet for you. SO much love for Old Kurt I might as well critize Lovecraft for all the difference it makes.

PS: Read Mother's Night. Here he got it right.

Kai:
I will agree that his writing style isn't fantastic. It's not super descriptive or breathtaking. It does get what needs to be done and I think the general absurdity of it holds it up. Take Cat's Cradle. Not wonderful writing by any means, but the story was out there and interesting enough that I could totally dig it.

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