Re: Taxi Driver and CITR
Babe 1974 (babe19742@visto.com)
Thu, 09 Dec 1999 21:55:12 -0800
Without comparing KVJ to definite greats like James Joyce, allow me to sa=
y that the whole idea for KVJ is to be "a silly old man"...I would sugges=
t the the first few pages of Breakfast of Champions for - as they say - a=
masterly rendition of KVJ's objective...
cheers
>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 m=
ore
"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 rea=
d
"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.
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