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Dear Sybil,
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:07 pm
by mr_j
Merry Christmas! I saw this and knowing how you admire the man, thought you'd appreciate it.
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:31 pm
by Irock
I just read Slaughterhouse 5. Good.
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:44 pm
by Sybil
Thanks Mr. J, and Merry Christmas to you!
I recently re-read Cat's Cradle. I really must re-read a lot of Vonnegut's stuff - makes me feel young again. I believe young Mr. Nerf is a fan as well.
Sy "must be regressing - I just finished Franny & Zooey again after 30 years, now I must re-read all of Salinger" bil
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:52 pm
by squeezle
Mr. V is one of my favorites - the summer after my freshman year of college I read almost everything he had written to date. Needless to say, I had a skewed persepective on the world that summer.
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:09 pm
by ifihadahifi
Can I be in y'alls club?
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:48 pm
by sam
Vonnegut's early greatness can't be debated, but Timequake blew and Hocus Pocus was mediocre at best.
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:24 pm
by Sybil
Vonnegut's early greatness can't be debated, but Timequake blew and Hocus Pocus was mediocre at best.
I certainly can't argue with that. Of course, in the course of a half century or so of writing, there are bound to be a few duds.
Maybe Kurt should have done like Salinger - after publishing his most brilliant works, disappear into the New England forest, never publish again and forever be revered as a genius of American literature.
Sybil
p.s. don't get me wrong, I adore Salinger's work - I just consider him a coward, and by all accounts an S.O. B.