|
Loading...
| |
| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : Madhatter22's 50 for 2010 | | 3 | bonniebooks, Friday 11:07pm |  |
| 999 Challenge : Madhatter22's | | 55 | madhatter22, Friday 9:05pm | |
| 1010 Category Challenge : SqueakyChu's 1010 Challenge | | 113 | SqueakyChu, Thursday 11:36pm | |
| Humor : Favorite Vonnegut? | | 24 | marguax, December 2009 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 1979 | | 9 | rocketjk, December 2009 | |
| Historical Fiction : with Fantasy or Sci-Fi Elements | | 76 | cnposner, November 2009 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Lemonwalrus' 50 Books in 2009 | | 23 | Lemonwalrus, October 2009 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : The Chronicles of Wunderkind, Episode II: Attack of the Tomes | | 258 | wunderkind, June 2009 | |
| Starting Your Own Personal Library : Where did you buy your books? Or how acquire? | | 16 | AzureMountain, November 2007 | |
| Hoosier Secularists : Kurt Vonnegut--Jailbird | | 1 | Darrol, August 2007 | |
... Sorrento
3.
4.
5.
I Love This Author, but I've Never Read ...
1. Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
2. Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
3. Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
4. Sanditon - Jane Austen
5.
Come, Tell Me How You Live
1. A Long Way G ... I'm so glad I found this thread (via the Kitchen Sink thread). This sounds perfect for me. I don't want to read 100 books in a year!
(Thanks for the tip; I've set up my own thread for my 10 categories -- although this time I absolutely could NOT get one of the touchstones to come up right!) Erin, w.r.t. #213, my sentiments exactly!
I have read four vonneguts, Bluebeard, Jailbird, Player Piano, Cat's Cradle
Player Piano is another book I very much liked but didn't hear much about it in most forums.
Going through your thread, found out that you too are a Kurt Vonnegut fan! I liked Cat's Cradle better than Jailbird. My all-time-favorite, regular rereads by Vonnegut are Slaughterhouse Five, Mother Night, Hocus Pocus, Jailbird and Bluebeard.
I also have God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Sirens of Titan, Slapstick and Breakfast of Champions on my TBR list already (which means I own them and plan ... 27) Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut--I think this is the sixth Vonnegut novel I've read, and it's tied (with Cat's Cradle) as the best of the bunch. And by "best" I mean that I give it a five-star rating, two thumbs up, unconditionally recommended. I don't know that the plot is important, ... Yay! Another person loving Vonnegut! One of my all-time favorite authors! I highly recommend Hocus Pocus, Mother Night,Jailbird and Bluebeard by him.
I'll look forward to reading your thread! ... .)
9. Neil Gaiman - "American Gods" (May)
I Love This Author, but I've Never Read ...
1. "Jailbird" - Kurt Vonnegut
2. "The True Deceiver" - Tove Jansson (Dec.)
3. "Fever Pitch" - Nick Hornby
4. "The Life All Around ... ... copies
3. Overload, Arthur Hailey 144 copies
4. Memories of Another Day, Harold Robbins 28 copies
5. Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut 1,237 copies
6. The Dead Zone, Stephen King 2,224 copies
7. The Last Enchantment, Mary Stewart 1,067 copies
8. The Establish ... ... are formulaic (hey look! It's Kilgore Trout! Again!), I love the humor and the message. My favorites are Mother Night, Jailbird, Breakfast of Champions, and...ah, I could go on all day. I'm thinking Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut would fall into that category, with the time-travel element within WW2... I have been reading some old paperback copies of Kurt Vonnegut: Jailbird, Mother Night. I purchase Mother Night at a paperback books store, Book Exchange, in Mishawaka, Indiana. I believe I was living in Berrien Springs, Michigan. And probably went there with my friend, Mark Copsey or ... ... apart from the usual secularist/atheist point of view can be illustrated by the following lines from near the end of Jailbird:
"We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. . . . The human condition in an exploding universe would not have been changed one iota if, rather than ...
|
 Google Books — Loading...
|
