storymilo

Haha, I think he ranked it as one of his best. I haven't read it though.

edit: here's the list, according to him:
* Player Piano: B
* The Sirens of Titan: A
* Mother Night: A
* Cat's Cradle: A-plus
* God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A
* Slaughterhouse-Five: A-plus
* Welcome to the Monkey House: B-minus
* Happy Birthday, Wanda June: D
* Breakfast of Champions: C
* Slapstick: D
* Jailbird: A
* Palm Sunday: C

Interesting. Especially because it was in Palm Sunday.

Sansa Stark

Bluebeard doesn't get a ****ing mention?! My fave. I couldn't get trhough Player Piano.

There's no Dead Eye **** or Galapagos on there either????

SATCHMO

I loved Player Piano.

I think we talked about that.

Bluebeard was really good though. It should definitely be on that list.

Sansa Stark

Something about it bothered me. Maybe because it wasn't split all up

I'll have to read it after I finish the other four books i'm reading

cardboard adolescent

I read this quite recently and it was really really really good:

adidasss

The list was made by Vonnegut before he wrote Dead Eye Dick, Bluebeard or Galapagos.

Apart from Breakfast of champions, which I'd grade an A-, I tend to agree with his self-appraisal.

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Fruitonica

Mother Night is probably my favourite Vonnegut.

Right now I'm digging into



Which is a really engaging, historical novel/cyber thriller that focuses on cryptology and code breaking.

Seltzer

I almost picked that out in the library today, but instead of adding to my already huge backlog I went for the light option and grabbed this:

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the Wondrous story of Henry Sugar.

Technically I finished it in one sitting, it's quite short. Roald Dahl is quite an interesting man, he seems to reach to both ends of the spectrum when it comes to writing. I look forward to reading other of his adult stories soon.

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MoonlitSunshine

So I forgot to read this thread for a while... apologies for dredging up old posts :P

Have you read any other of Auster's books? He can be quite arrogant in the way he writes sometimes, but Mr Vertigo and The Music of Chance would be two of my favourite (non-sci-fi, at least) books, and Timbuktu is fantastic for what it is. I've never seen someone pull off a book written from a dog's perspective so well.

I remember the first time I read Do Androids Dream?, and it struck me how much more depth there is to it than even a film as fantastic as Blade Runner. They just don't get the sheer importance of empathy across in the film, despite the fact that it's such an integral part of the whole story. have you read much else of Phillip K ****'s work?

I end up recommending this to people a lot :P it's one of her more accessible sci-fi wanderings, I've found. if you like her style of writing, I'd really suggest reading The Dispossessed, there are some great ideas in it.

As for a book I read recently:



if you're interested in Sci-fi at all I would recommend this whole-heartedly. It's quite heavy, and slow at the start (which is a common trait in her books) but once it gets going... it's a phenomenal book, all being said.

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