Re: Taxi Driver and CITR
rev. bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 19:16:08 -0500
>I havent read Timequake, but read Breakfast of Champions at least once a month!
>
>Some other ones that I like are Cat's Cradle (for the irreverant plot - I
mean, he blasts the Holy Cow Einstein in that one), God Bless You Mr.
Rosewater (parts of it), and also Player Piano (which I think is a much more
"humanely realistic" version of 1984)...
I read my first Vonnegut book when I was about 13 or 14, and I proceeded to
read a LOT of them. I was a really big fan, and then I didn't read his
books for a while because I didn't have any new ones to read. Then I read
"The Sound and the Fury", and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and
Vonnegut just became a silly old man to me (except for maybe a few books
like Slaughterhouse Five...)
though I remember "Deadeye Dick" being something above average...
the last Vonnegut book I read was "Cat's Cradle" which everyone always
talked about as being one of the best (up there with Slaughterhouse) and I
thought it was amazingly stupid. Bokononism was such a stupid idea.