Is it worth a read?
No since you've probably got shitty taste and might not enjoy that great book
>>25002856I enjoyed Moby Dick
Sure, it's short and easy.
Is it reddit? Im planning to buy it but im unsure whether to do it or not
It's great for those in late adolescence.
>>25002851yes. its a beautiful story. those that belittle it are shallow. they skimmed through the great details and confused certain ideas for what the book prescribes because of the presentation when the book is only about someone who thinks that way and is much more ambivalent.
>>25002851SO IT GOES
>>25002851It sucks because Kurt Vonnegut was a libtard with an incredibly shallow understanding of everything and poisoned by irony like redditors today. In the book, the main character gets sucked into the future by aliens called Trafalmagorians and you're supposed to think they're fake for no reason at all. This implicit command is because Vonnegut sought to sap the wonder out of life and make everything gray, egalitarian, communist (Pilgrim complains about being rich and born on the "money river" at some points -- again Vonnegut was just stupid). The main command of the book is "so it goes," another one of Vonnegut's requirements to not question anything at life, not accept that anything can change, not fight for yourself, to meekly accept your station. And no, there is no reason to suspect he was critiquing that philosophy, rather positing that it was the only way to cope with the horrors of war. Also, the book refutes itself in the intro when Vonnegut mentions talking with someone that, upon hearing that he was writing an anti-war book, told him that he may as well write an anti-iceberg book.
>>25002977>the book refutes itself in the introYou're as shallow as the character who gave that "refutation"
>>25002851Yes, it's a good intro to his work. Not his best but certainly enjoyable.
>>25002851I just read it yesterday. It's definitely worth a read. It takes less than a day to read and it's really good.
It's enjoyable and pretty unique. But it's certainly overrated. Still I would recommend it to high schoolers, which is precisely why it's a part of standard curriculum.
It was so bad I subconsciously actually threw it in the trash without me noticing. A day later I found out what I did.
>>25002851Haven't read Slaughterhouse in years, but I just finished Sirens Of Titan. I mostly enjoyed it—Vonnegut is very funny and imaginative—and his prose is simple, so it was a quick and easy read. But all of Vonnegut's stuff seems to revolve around some central platitude—in Sirens' case, it was "we all depend on others, so it's not so bad if people use you." I think all great art relies on complexity and ambiguity, so the fact that his work can usually be reduced to some sort of Hallmark greeting card message inherently drags it down.
*pshhh*get on my level...
>>25003050Deciding to fight a lost cause is romantic. Maybe the book could have been, too, if Vonnegut had had a soul.
>>25002851It's a one-sitting read. Vonnegut is like Goosebumps for adults.
>that part where a german lady is running with her baby during the fire bombing, trips and throws the baby into a burning building and never stands up again out of grief>that bit where he cries over a horse having a hangnailthose are the most memorable parts, there you go.t. read once 8 years ago.
>>25002851Reddithouse Five
>>2500285120 years ago it was a great way to impress millenial hipster women but today I would rather read this >>25003707Timothy Leary's favorite book while he was in prison.
>>25002977>Vonnegut sought to sap the wonder out of lifeI mean seeing Dresden getting cooked would do that to you
>>25002851While I love Slaughterhouse Five, I prefer Sirens of Titan and Cat's Cradle. All of his books are really short and easy just pick one of em and you'll know very quickly if you like him or not as his voice is very similar in all of his books.
