I got on a Vonnegut kick this evening and ran across one of my favorite short stories. This is just BOING page 1 of 6 and the rest LA LA LA is attached (Just a 6 AHHHHHH page pdf if DING you can BELL-GONG get through CAR-CRASH it) Full pdf attached below.
yup .... a man well ahead of his time .... as a youth, i read most of his books and many of his short stories ... . can anyone recommend a modern contemporary to him ?
I remember that only because George & Hazel were my parents names....*duh*....Guess I'll have to reread it now...
This was made into a movie version the ballerinas dancing with sandbag handicaps was pretty good;(i.e. no ballerina could be any more graceful than any other).
Okay you spurred my renewed interest.... I just placed 2 holds at my local library system (it has nine branches) for his following books; "Armagedon in retrospect"(and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace), and "Look at the birdie"(unpublished short story fiction). . Also I have never seen the movie "Alice's Restaurant" with Arlo Guthrie.... , I am getting that from them as well.
My wife was a big Vonnegut fan all through h,.s. I have yet to breach her collection of paperbacks in the basement stacks.Other than "Galapagos" (a future where humans have evolved into seals). Hes got some great titles i.e: Wampeter ,foma and grandfalloons" and "welome to the monkey house", I think "slaughterhouse 5" was his too.
Slaughter House 5 or The Childrens Crusade was awesome. I'm pretty sure I have every KV published - most in hardcover and a few are signed. Great stuff and no, I don't know who can replace him.
I started reading Vonnegut with Slaughter House 5. I think my favorite is Cat's Cradle, it was my first end of the world novel. Ice-nine, what a way to go. The tornadoes were my favorite part I have a crystal clear picture of them in my mind.
