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sven thorkel · « **Reply #510 on:** June 24, 2010, 06:05:27 PM »

really good so far

kilgore. · « **Reply #511 on:** June 24, 2010, 07:39:43 PM »

ROBERT ANTON WILSON
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
RICHARD ALPERT
ROBERT SHEA
ROBERT ANTON WILSON

RightCoastBiased · « **Reply #512 on:** June 24, 2010, 07:56:04 PM »

J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians

Quick read and fucking incredibly well written.

LloydChristmas · « **Reply #513 on:** July 09, 2010, 09:19:13 PM »

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just read

woah...first time in this thread, about to post this very book and it's on this page...small world. i'm just getting into vonnegut, and this is my favorite so far. i read slapstick right before, and sirens years back in school. just started jailbird...seems like a slower read, but good so far nonetheless.

i need some advice on what (vonnegut) to read next, and i don't like reading reviews because they ruin books for me. anybody have any suggestions?

VictoriousOG · « **Reply #514 on:** July 10, 2010, 12:06:48 AM »

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Went to a Tanger Outlet at North Myrtle Beach with my dad Saturday morning, they have a outlet book store, got these.
4 Bucks:

I won this book from them Emerica site last year, has a bunch of autographs from legends and shit.

Upgrayedd · « **Reply #515 on:** July 10, 2010, 05:17:45 AM »

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brycickle · « **Reply #516 on:** July 10, 2010, 10:23:55 AM »

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woah...first time in this thread, about to post this very book and it's on this page...small world. i'm just getting into vonnegut, and this is my favorite so far. i read slapstick right before, and sirens years back in school. just started jailbird...seems like a slower read, but good so far nonetheless.

i need some advice on what (vonnegut) to read next, and i don't like reading reviews because they ruin books for me. anybody have any suggestions?

Cat's Cradle is one of my favorites. I also really liked Timequake, but you should read a bit more of his stuff before that one. It has a lot of tie ins to his other books.

sven thorkel · « **Reply #517 on:** July 10, 2010, 12:06:10 PM »

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woah...first time in this thread, about to post this very book and it's on this page...small world. i'm just getting into vonnegut, and this is my favorite so far. i read slapstick right before, and sirens years back in school. just started jailbird...seems like a slower read, but good so far nonetheless.

i need some advice on what (vonnegut) to read next, and i don't like reading reviews because they ruin books for me. anybody have any suggestions?
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Cat's Cradle is one of my favorites. I also really liked Timequake, but you should read a bit more of his stuff before that one. It has a lot of tie ins to his other books.

from what i've read of his, here's how i would rank them (so you can decide what to read next)
cat's cradle, breakfast of champions, hocus pocus, god bless you mr. rosewater, slaughterhouse five, mother night, the sirens of titan, slapstick. i would also suggest a man without a country for a short read.

i'm reading this at the moment. so far it's been really good

kilgore. · « **Reply #518 on:** July 10, 2010, 02:23:37 PM »

i have that goodbye blue monday bomb tattoo that's blacked out on the mother night cover up there. first tattoo ever.

kilgore. · « **Reply #519 on:** July 14, 2010, 12:24:11 AM »

ed... · « **Reply #520 on:** July 14, 2010, 01:00:01 AM »

Yes to Dostoyevsky, just finished

oyolar · « **Reply #521 on:** July 14, 2010, 09:01:15 AM »

"Mother Night" is way better than "Slaughterhouse-Five" and Rosewater. Also, "Bluebeard" is a really good book too. Probably one of my favorites as well as "Mother Night" and "Breakfast of Champions."

buttpirate · « **Reply #522 on:** July 14, 2010, 10:13:41 AM »

3/4 of the way through this. Quite liking Joyce, thinking about reading Ulysses next

oyolar · « **Reply #523 on:** July 14, 2010, 10:35:30 AM »

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3/4 of the way through this. Quite liking Joyce, thinking about reading Ulysses next

Fucking love Joyce. I'm reading Finnegans Wake right now. I've been trying it for a few years. Ulysses is amazing. Easily the best book I've ever read. I read it twice in a year-once for fun and once for a class. A little warning is that it is a much harder book to get through than you think, especially if you don't want to merely read the words versus reading it, if that makes sense. You might not get too much out of it the first time, but it's still an amazing read.

yeahisaidit · « **Reply #524 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:17:39 PM »

Quote from: brycickle on June 17, 2010, 03:05:22 PM

If you liked "Football Factory" then you should check out this one:

Salman Agah still getting covers.

Inbred Jed · « **Reply #525 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:42:41 PM »

The last few weeks I read this...

then this.....

I really like Jack London. I've read a few of his novels and a book of short stories.

macgruber · « **Reply #526 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:50:00 PM »

i got a bunch of books i want to check off soon, but these are up next once i finish up blood meridian
-atlas shrugged
-love is a dog from hell
-the amazing adventures of kavalier and klay

LloydChristmas · « **Reply #527 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:54:56 PM »

great read. someone told me to read more vonnegut before reading this, but i don't see why. seriously entertaining.

macgruber · « **Reply #528 on:** July 14, 2010, 02:56:13 PM »

timequake is easily my least favorite vonnegut book i've read. couple great quotes but overall, kind of whatever.

LloydChristmas · « **Reply #529 on:** July 14, 2010, 05:34:15 PM »

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timequake is easily my least favorite vonnegut book i've read. couple great quotes but overall, kind of whatever.

i mean if you've read his other stuff there are a lot of repeated stories in timequake, but i laughed just as much as i laughed the first time i read them in the other books. he got to be pretty bitter by the time he wrote timequake, but he makes his bitterness funny. it's a quality i can appreciate in vonnegut and nobody else in the world.

oyolar · « **Reply #530 on:** July 14, 2010, 06:31:15 PM »

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i mean if you've read his other stuff there are a lot of repeated stories in timequake, but i laughed just as much as i laughed the first time i read them in the other books. he got to be pretty bitter by the time he wrote timequake, but he makes his bitterness funny. it's a quality i can appreciate in vonnegut and nobody else in the world.

It's mainly because you have to build more of a relationship with Kilgore Trout to understand how monumental and important Timequake's ending is for him.

LloydChristmas · « **Reply #531 on:** July 14, 2010, 08:04:10 PM »

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i mean if you've read his other stuff there are a lot of repeated stories in timequake, but i laughed just as much as i laughed the first time i read them in the other books. he got to be pretty bitter by the time he wrote timequake, but he makes his bitterness funny. it's a quality i can appreciate in vonnegut and nobody else in the world.
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It's mainly because you have to build more of a relationship with Kilgore Trout to understand how monumental and important Timequake's ending is for him.

of course distinguishing between vonnegut and trout is not something i even thought about anymore by the end. always looked at trout as the person vonnegut wished to be, if only for a brief time- a romanticized version of himself- and used the alter ego to be bolder than he ever could be (which is tough, because he's edgy as hell).

brycickle · « **Reply #532 on:** July 15, 2010, 01:46:09 AM »

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timequake is easily my least favorite vonnegut book i've read. couple great quotes but overall, kind of whatever.
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i mean if you've read his other stuff there are a lot of repeated stories in timequake, but i laughed just as much as i laughed the first time i read them in the other books. he got to be pretty bitter by the time he wrote timequake, but he makes his bitterness funny. it's a quality i can appreciate in vonnegut and nobody else in the world.
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It's mainly because you have to build more of a relationship with Kilgore Trout to understand how monumental and important Timequake's ending is for him.

bingo bango!!

camel filters · « **Reply #533 on:** July 15, 2010, 12:09:35 PM »

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third. reading women right now. fucking loving it so far.

swllbo · « **Reply #534 on:** July 16, 2010, 12:06:16 AM »

Just started this one today, and so far i'm really enjoying it.

Mooley · « **Reply #535 on:** July 16, 2010, 11:43:37 AM »

Quote from: kilgore. on July 14, 2010, 12:24:11 AM

I have had this fucking book for more than a year I think and still not read it. I told myself I would have to after I loved Crime and Punishment so much, but haven't found the time for it. Going to have to happen.

Pelican · « **Reply #536 on:** July 16, 2010, 02:23:45 PM »

can anyone recommend a good starting point for Saul Bellow?

Vegetable Lasagna · « **Reply #537 on:** July 18, 2010, 07:14:08 PM »

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third. reading women right now. fucking loving it so far.

Finishing this up soon. First Bukowski book. Is there a good order to read his other books in?

Gonna go back to Vonnegut next with Mother Night. Same question for his books. I've only read Slaughter House Five so far. Is there a good order?

kilgore. · « **Reply #538 on:** July 18, 2010, 07:17:23 PM »

not necessarily. but you can never go wrong with reading someone's novels chronologically.

oyolar · « **Reply #539 on:** July 18, 2010, 09:56:21 PM »

Slaughterhouse-Five is a pretty good starting place just because it introduces a lot of thematic elements (flash-forwards, flash-backs, Kilgore Trout, cruelty of humans, etc) that run through Vonnegut's works. Like kilgore said, there really isn't too much importance on order, except Timequake has a more meaning the more Vonnegut you know. But even then you can enjoy it on its own. Mother Night is great though. Definitely one of my favorite Vonnegut books and I've read almost all of his stuff.

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