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Ishotdanieljohnston:
I know a threads been done on him before but not since '06.

Anyway, I just finished reading Breakfast of Champions and it dominates. In terms of ripping apart America and modern society and culture he makes Hunter S. Thompson look like a toddler who's had to much sugar (much as I respect Thompson's work).

He's at once hilarious, disturbing and quite frightening. It's one of the only books I've read where I've come out thinking damn, he's so fucking right. Just spot on.

And now he's dead  :cry:

Nodaisho:
I really need to read more of his stuff, I haven't finished anything of his other than God bless you, Doctor Kevorkian, something always distracts me and before I know it, I have to return the book to the library.

ledhendrix:
My friend is always raving about Slaughter House 5. I really need to get a copy and read it.

De_El:
Slaughterhouse-Five is the most popular, but in my opinion it's nothing compared to Cat's Cradle.  Cat's Cradle is nothing short of motherfecking brilliant.
Although Slaughterhouse-Five did spawn popular usage of the phrase "so it goes," which I can use in normal conversation a lot more often than "granfaloon." To anyone who's read Cat's Cradle: 'dya ever actually try the feet thing, boku-maru?

SonofZ3:
The first things I read of Vonnegut were Deadeye Dick and Slaughterhouse Five. To be honest, I felt pretty let down after how much colleagues had talked him up. My parents suggest that I need to read Cat's Cradle to really get his genius, but the previous two left too bad a taste in my mouth. I haven't read him since. I'll read Cat's Cradle in the next few weeks and see what I think.

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