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Vonnegut, anyone?
Ioreth (on hiatus) Started conversation Mar 4, 2000
A great favorite of mine.
So it goes.
Vonnegut, anyone?
Munchkin Posted Mar 7, 2000
The problem I have with Kurt Vonnegut is that I get confused over which book is which. I keep pulling them off bookshop shelves, reading the blurb on the back, and having no idea if I have read it or not. They are all good, but they keep having Kilgore Trout and the Trafalmedorians (I doubt I even got three letters right there) popping up. Mostly it is my bad memory, but there you go.
Slaughter House Five is brilliant though.
Vonnegut, anyone?
Metal Chicken Posted Mar 9, 2000
Got to agree with you there. I loved Slaughterhouse 5 when I read it years ago and then went off and read every other Vonnegut I could get my hands on. Sirens of Titan was great too, very funny. I lent it to my sister and her comment was "You can see where Douglas Adams got his ideas from". By which I think she meant Vonnegut must have been an influence on DNA. Interestingly, he recently said as much on a BBC radio interview.
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bludragon, aka the Dragon Queen of Damogran Posted Mar 25, 2000
's funny that when I read hhgttg the first time, I thought:
"aha! a funny SF novel at last! I wonder how much this author was influenced by Vonnegut?..." cause Vonnegut was the only other sf author who wrote funny back then. At least as far as I remember.
And the other funny thing is that when Vonnegut was so controversial and everybody was so serious about him they seemed to miss the part where he was poking fun at stuff and that is part of the charm and depth of his work. He says very heavy stuff, but never loses his sense of humor. He's a little more depressed than DNA, but they both have that same sense of humor and perspective on life.
Sorta like "the light at the end of the tunnel is probably the headlight of an oncoming train..."
}:=8
PS is the interview available online anywhere? would like to read it.
Vonnegut, anyone?
billypilgrim Posted Mar 25, 2000
Hullo!! I saw this link and had to stop by. I loved Slaughterhouse Five (of course). I know what you mean about not being able to remember which book is which, though (as someone said). I always get this nagging feeling that there's one that I missed. But whenever I start reading the blurbs on the back, or the opening paragraph, I can't recall if I have or I haven't. I read a whole bunch of 'em one summer, back to back, and they're all a bit of a haze.
I have the same problem with Woody Allen movies.
Vonnegut, anyone?
Metal Chicken Posted Apr 3, 2000
I don't think the text is online anywhere, but if I find it I'll post a link here. The interview was back in January, on a BBC radio program called "Book Club", where DNA was discussing his work with an interviewer and a small group of fans. It was worth listening to just for the excerpts from the old radio shows.
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Devoidj Posted Apr 4, 2000
hey all,
i can understand what you guys are talking about with the confusion between vonnegut books, but personally i kinda like that, i read breakfast of champions first, and then i read bluebeard, which was all about the guest artist (if you havent read it, you should, its awesome) then there was galapagos which had some cameo from the ghost of someone from breakfast of champions. i think its really cool the way he works everything together
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Metal Chicken Posted Apr 5, 2000
This partial transcript is the best I can find http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/bookclub/adams/transcript.shtml
It's nobbut the intro but better than nothing I suppose
MC
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