Author Topic: monkeyhouse  (Read 1949 times)

Jason

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Re: monkeyhouse
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2008, 10:29:41 AM »
Kurt Vonnegut is pretty shit. I mean its readable but only in the same that the Archies are listenable, nothing to get excited about.

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Re: monkeyhouse
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2008, 10:39:58 AM »
But I respond to his good-natured despair, Jason.  I'm always a sucker for that.

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Re: monkeyhouse
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2008, 10:51:28 AM »
I really enjoyed 'Man Without a Country', the autobiography, more than any novels I've read of his.
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Re: monkeyhouse
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2008, 01:25:23 PM »
I really enjoyed 'Man Without a Country', the autobiography, more than any novels I've read of his.

i happened to be finishing that the day i found out he died. what a book.

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Re: monkeyhouse
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2008, 03:19:23 PM »
I found Vonnegut entertaining but immensely silly and obvious when I first read him.  It didn't help that all around were all these kids ooh-ing and ah-ing about how wonderful and deep he was, which of course predisposed me to despise him, contrarian that I sometimes am.  It was only when I picked up his books decades later that I came to appreciate him.  And even then I preferred his later stuff to his early antics.

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Re: monkeyhouse
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2008, 03:21:51 PM »
the band Dead-eye dick?

Yes start with the band, they are great, New Age Girl is a great tune to start with.

Then the book is almost as good.
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Re: monkeyhouse
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2008, 03:28:06 PM »
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.  Ha!

Not only did I have to read Jonathan Livingston Seagull for a horrible business course I was required to take in community college, the teacher made us listen to it while sitting in a darkened room.   

The horror.

 

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