THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on April 11, 2007, 11:24:39 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html
84 years old. He was on the very short list for best living author, too :(
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yeah, he was a great author. he'll be missed. :gloomy
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what did he write?
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what did he write?
Is Honey and Clover any good?
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what did he write?
Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan. . .
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A wonderful author who, while he hadn't written any great works lately, remains relevant even now.
Take it easy, Kurt. You're with God now. ;)
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what did he write?
Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan. . .
I never read or heard of any of those books.
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what did he write?
Is Honey and Clover any good?
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
ok suggest me his best book and I'll read it. I've only ever heard of breakfast.
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what did he write?
Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan. . .
I never read or heard of any of those books.
Well, you're not very intelligent so that's not very surprising.
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my fave is slaughterhouse 5. it's a predictable choice, but it's also his most easily digested. then again, i've only read it, cat's cradle, breakfast, and the sirens of titan.
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That's so weird. I was just talking to someone about Breakfast of Champions last night :(
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I have always liked Bluebeard the best out of all of his works, even for all it's flaws- it's the same reason that I like the Atlantic Ocean better than the Pacific, and mountains more than beaches. I never read a book of his that I didn't like, though.
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what did he write?
Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan. . .
I never read or heard of any of those books.
Well, you're not very intelligent so that's not very surprising.
:'( I'll try to find some of his works then.
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That's sad. I remember the first book of his I ever read was Slaughterhouse 5 in high school. It was supposed to be for summer reading but our school banned the book. It made me want to read it so I did.
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Vonnegut was one of the very best. Now Pynchon and McCarthy are all we have left. STAY ALIVE YOU GUYS.
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is his books scifi or what does her write?
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is his books scifi or what does her write?
It's hard to describe genres when it comes to Vonnegut. Go read Cat's Cradle.
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Vonnegut was one of the very best. Now Pynchon and McCarthy are all we have left. STAY ALIVE YOU GUYS.
And Updike and Oates.
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and DELILLO and PROULX
lol
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lolz brokeback
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what did he write?
Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan. . .
I never read or heard of any of those books.
A...are you serious?! You never heard of Breakfast of Champions?! SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5?! Isn't Slaughterhouse 5 required for HS reading? I read that years ago.
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ain't nothin' wrong with Delillo.
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In all fairness, Junpei's like 16, he still has plenty of time to read that stuff.
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Best living author is obviously Dean Koontz now.
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Best living author is obviously Dean Koontz now.
Nah, his name sounds too racist for me
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Can someone give me Kurt Vonnegut book suggestions? I have Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano, and Jailbird.
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In all fairness, Junpei's like 16, he still has plenty of time to read that stuff.
? I thought he was like 18.
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Best living author is obviously Dean Koontz now.
I loved reading his books back in high school. He always put in at least one hardcore sex scene in each book. *fap fap*
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Man, jerking off to written sex is even lamer than the kids who would jerk off to lingerie magazines instead of porno flicks
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Man, jerking off to written sex is even lamer than the kids who would jerk off to lingerie magazines instead of porno flicks
I was using the power of imagination. :'(
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ain't nothin' wrong with Delillo.
sorry, mang; i found white noise totally obnoxious and pretentious -- and i use neither modifier lightly, because i typically enjoy both obnoxious and pretentious.
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Can someone give me Kurt Vonnegut book suggestions? I have Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano, and Jailbird.
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Okay, I'm going to admit that I would jerk off to Dean Koontz stuff. Not while reading, but afterwards. The sexiest one was the one book where some group poisoned the entire town's water supply so they could be thought controlled. This one fucked up guy came in and basically made people his sex toys.
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Can someone give me Kurt Vonnegut book suggestions? I have Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano, and Jailbird.
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Have you read all of those?
If you haven't, I recommend starting with Cat's Cradle.
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Yes I have.
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Can someone give me Kurt Vonnegut book suggestions? I have Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano, and Jailbird.
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Read Bluebeard. It's flawed, but it's his last good work. Timequake overshoots and doesn't deliver IMO; however, having said that it's still better than most books. I also heavily enjoyed Sirens of Titan, Mother Night and Bagombo Snuff Box.
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Check out Sirens of Titan. It's his second novel. It is especially scifi-y but really fun.
I don't think Timquake is that bad at all. It's as good as anything he wrote after 1980.
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Okay, I'm going to admit that I would jerk off to Dean Koontz stuff. Not while reading, but afterwards. The sexiest one was the one book where some group poisoned the entire town's water supply so they could be thought controlled. This one fucked up guy came in and basically made people his sex toys.
Hot. What's the title of the book? :-*
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How scifi-y is it? I don't mind that at all. I'll check em out at Barnes tomorrow.
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How scifi-y is it? I don't mind that at all. I'll check em out at Barnes tomorrow.
There's interplanetary travel and what not. Jargon. It's thematically still a Vonnegut book through and through, it just has a heavier scifi coating than most of em.
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Okay, I'm going to admit that I would jerk off to Dean Koontz stuff. Not while reading, but afterwards. The sexiest one was the one book where some group poisoned the entire town's water supply so they could be thought controlled. This one fucked up guy came in and basically made people his sex toys.
Hot. What's the title of the book? :-*
NIGHT CHILLS
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A loss to all of humanity. Though I'm sure he was ready to go. He had said as much a number of times. The man was a true saint.
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To anyone who hasn't read him, please, do yourself a favor and consume as much of his work as you can. His later non-fiction work was wonderful.
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:'( A real loss.
He's my favourite author, and The Sirens of Titan is my favourite book.
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One of my favorite authors, absolutely loved Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse 5... just heard the news on Yahoo this morning... he will be sorely missed.
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Man, jerking off to written sex is even lamer than the kids who would jerk off to lingerie magazines instead of porno flicks
:lol
That's messed up. Girls like erotic stories :-*
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This is like all those movie threads...
I haven't read any of his stuff. :-[
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I tried to read Slaughterhouse 5- I had no choice, I had to read it for my 12th grade English class- and I couldn't get into it. It was so disjointed for me. Maybe I'll go back to it now...
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I'm gonna pick up some of the stuff I haven't read after work. Sirens of Titan sounds interesting.
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I've read most of his stuff, he was a huge influence on me back in HS.
My favorite of his is Breakfast of Champions, but I'd recommend Cat's Cradle as the best starting point.
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Breakfast of Champions was the first book of his I read; I took it from a friend's bookshelf when I first moved to NY because I saw it there and was bored, and I walked to Washington Square Park and read the whole thing. Then I went back to his place and grabbed Slaughterhouse-Five and read half in a diner around the corner and half in a cafe around the other the next day.