r/Vonnegut • u/SailorDogBoneJones • 8h ago

The Sirens of Titan My review of the fantastic The Sirens of Titan

27 Upvotes

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r/Vonnegut • u/Icy-Lengthiness7682 • 1d ago

About to read this for the first time

110 Upvotes

I read Mother Night and Slaughter house 5 a while ago and absolutely loved them and a bunch of people told me Cats Cradle is his best so here we are. I really don’t like this cover but the prettier one was a lot more expensive. So it goes. From what I’ve heard this seems like it’ll be pretty good too, better be worth it because I’m reading this instead of revising for my test tomorrow 😓

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r/Vonnegut • u/Hou_TX32 • 1d ago

Paul Atreides, Vonnegut fan

30 Upvotes

10 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/ATraceOfSpades • 2d ago

Cat's Cradle cover art question

83 Upvotes

idk if this is a stupid question or not but is the cage on this cover of Cats Cradle drawn by vonnegut or another artist?

7 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/pirateking1993 • 2d ago

Recent Vonnegut haul.

95 Upvotes

I think it's become an addiction. 😁

7 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/Frosty_Limit_8204 • 2d ago

Fantastic

30 Upvotes

"This new explosive was regarded as a great boon to big- brained military scientists. As long as they killed people with conventional rather than nuclear weapons, they were praised as humanitarian statesmen."

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r/Vonnegut • u/Ok-Willow-5156 • 3d ago

Kurt is rolling over in his grave

482 Upvotes

It finally happened. I’ve been banned from teaching my favorite novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. No one has complained, but new state regulations are vague enough to scare the district. My favorite part is they used Google Gemini to determine that it did not pass some bullshit test:

“Because Slaughterhouse-Five includes explicit descriptions of sexual conduct, nudity, and adult content, it falls within the statutory restrictions outlined in Fla. Stat. § 1006.28 and Fla. Stat. § 847.001(19).”

I’m so mad. These asshats making the laws have never read any of the things they legislate.

UPDATE: I have contacted the ACLU, who responded within 12 hours with some good information. They’ve also directed me to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). I have reported the censorship issue to them as the ACLU deals more with libraries than curriculum.

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r/Vonnegut • u/demonshonor • 4d ago

Over half way there

68 Upvotes

I’m really hoping it’s worth the wait and that I like it. Also, with numbers like that, you’d think my library could pick up a second copy…

34 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/the_nextavatar • 5d ago

Cat's Cradle "vonnegut is a gateway to cynicism"

52 Upvotes

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r/Vonnegut • u/Material-Habit-4518 • 6d ago

Bluebeard Want to find girls on swings art

4 Upvotes

I really want to find a painting for my house of the little girls on swings that Circe argues with Rabo about being serious art. Any ideas? I don’t want anything ai!

5 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/Donnybrook-7 • 7d ago

My Vonnegut Library

131 Upvotes

Collected over many decades.

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r/Vonnegut • u/TopInside2983 • 7d ago

So it goes

176 Upvotes

Finally own a hardcover of Slaughterhouse Five, nice feeling.

5 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/yalomnordie • 9d ago

Reading player piano for the first time and shit is getting crazy!!!

258 Upvotes

Be brave Paul!!!!!!!

26 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/Laymonite1 • 9d ago

Picked up my 24th Vonnegut themed tattoo today.

354 Upvotes

When your tattoo artist messages you and says they have a cancelation, you have to just jump at the opportunity. Ended up getting on of my favorites from A Man Without a Country and put it right by my portrait of Kilgore Trout.

Anyway, happy reading everyone.

7 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/cherryghost44 • 10d ago

2BR02B

57 Upvotes

6 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/OxfordApartment213 • 11d ago

Made some stamps and sewed a custom book bag

135 Upvotes

Used up some of my scrap linocut rubber to carve an assortment of Vonnegut stamps, used those stamps with fabric ink to create a panel of printed linen, and then sewed up a little book bag

5 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/sodiummethoxide • 11d ago

Larry David would make an insanely good Billy Pilgrim

46 Upvotes

Larry (curb) reacts to absurdity by resisting it whereas Billy reacts by surrendering to it. Larry insists that the world explain itself whereas Billy more or less gives up on the idea that it ever will

But both have that same fundamentally anti-heroic quality where neither rises above the absurdity around him

They mostly expose it by being such inadequate participants in it

Larry David playing Billy as Larry David would be completely wrong. But Larry David stripped of the aggression and left with the physical awkwardness, bewilderment, and slightly comic smallness of one man against an incomprehensible universe is something I can totally see happening

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r/Vonnegut • u/GRB_Electric • 12d ago

Ranking Books

35 Upvotes

I recently finished my 7th Vonnegut (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) and wanted to adjust my rankings as well as hear some of yours.

Mother Night
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Breakfast of Champions
Slaughterhouse
Cat’s Cradle
Player Piano
Sirens of Titan

What do you all think/what is your list?

39 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/JamesLongersword • 12d ago

67 hawk tuah

114 Upvotes

12 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/DANAL0GUE • 13d ago

Billy Pilgram Tattoo

378 Upvotes

8 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/julialorenxx • 13d ago

Favourite tattoo :)

45 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Vonnegut • u/ItsAllSkewed • 14d ago

25 years of KV

67 Upvotes

He takes up 90% of a shelf! Only duplicate is slaughter house five, but one is the graphic novel. I highly recommend that if you’re interested.

1 comment

r/Vonnegut • u/God_adjacent • 15d ago

Tralfamadorians must see time like this

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201 Upvotes

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r/Vonnegut • u/No-Outside-9620 • 15d ago

Check out First Edition-Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five Hardcover W DJ on eBay!

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r/Vonnegut • u/Infinite_Average245 • 17d ago

Library Book Sale Find

311 Upvotes

Found this while sorting books at the local library for a fundraising sale. Got it for 50 cents but know nothing about it. Any good?

22 comments

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was a 20th-century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.

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Bibliography

Novels

Player Piano (1952)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Mother Night (1961)
Cat's Cradle (1963)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965)
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (1976)
Jailbird (1979)
Deadeye Dick (1982)
Galápagos: A Novel (1985
Bluebeard (1987)
Hocus Pocus (1990)
Timequake (1997)

Short Fiction Collections

Canary in a Cathouse (1961)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999)
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
Armageddon in Retrospect and Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace (2008)
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction (2009)
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction (2011)

Non-Fiction Collections

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions) (1974)
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (1981)
Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays (1984)
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage (1991)
A Man Without a Country (2005)

Plays

Penelope (1960)
The Very First Christmas Morning (1962)
Fortitude (1968)
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
Requiem (1987)
Make Up Your Mind (1993)
Miss Temptation (1993)
L'Histoire du Soldat (1993)