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| Humor : Favorite Vonnegut? | | 17 | krolik, July 20 | |
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| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Short Stories | | 70 | clong, December 2007 | |
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| Dormant: Starting Your Own Personal Library : Where did you buy your books? Or how acquire? | | 16 | AzureMountain, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Metafilter : Mandatory "favorite books" discussion | | 38 | MeFipatricio, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Writer-readers : What is your fave book/author? | | 22 | john_sunseri, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : KURT VONNEGUT 1922-2007 R.I.P | | 17 | SqueakyChu, April 2007 | |
| Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate | | 384 | debbiedebbiedebbie, Monday 10:44am |
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| Book talk : Name authors that after youve red them first, you had the urge to read EVERYTHING they wrote. | | 394 | digifish_books, July 31 |
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| Hogwarts Express : What are you reading NOW.......IV | | 303 | Whicker, July 9 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Emotional Reactions and Movies | | 202 | Child_of_Light, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : Christmas presents? | | 21 | bluesalamanders, January 2007 |
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Griffonnage, you flatter me. Between vacuumboy9's comparison to Mother Night and, now, yours to Empire Falls, I'm liable to get a swelled head. Thank you.
And we have a new visitor. Hi Tedd, thanks for joining us.
There are several points in the novel when you don't get to know what Char ... #8--Mother Night--how odd: the touchstone gave me the other one. 'Night Mother became a film, too, didn't it? #6 Did you mean 'Night Mother, the devastating play by Marsha Norman? (Well worth reading). 'Cause Vonnegut's book is Mother Night. Touchstones really ought to get that. Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
Night, Mother Kurt Vonnegut
Oedipus the King Sophocles
Autobiography of Mother Jones
Finding My Father Rod McKuen Mama Makes Up Her Mind
My Father's Dragon
Papa Hemingway by A. E. Hotchner
Mother Night
The Mother Hunt by Rex Stout Currently reading Mother Night by Vonnegut and Dandelion Wine by Bradbury. (I read DW annually, easily my favorite book.) 16) Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (288 pages)
My new favorite Vonnegut. Mother Night is funny, intelligent, entertaining satire.
Next up is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. So excited. ... n.
If you still don't like Vonnegut after that, don't bother with the others but if you do then I do think you will enjoy Mother Night and Cat's Cradle.
(I am not sure about a Nick Nolte movie version of Mother Night, so I cannot say. However, I do know he had a part in the movie version ... ... of mine. I read a few more of his works for a Satire course and for an Apocalyptic Science Fiction course in university (Mother Nightand Cat's Cradle I believe). I confess I hadn't read anything new by him for a great while but after he died I started buying up his books like mad, trying ... ... read four or five of Kurt Vonnegut's novels (including Slaughterhouse Five, and the only one I've liked at all was Mother Night.
I don't know why I've read so many books by a writer I clearly don't like, except maybe that I'm trying to figure out what everybody else sees in him. ... Chuck Palahniuk - Diary ½, Survivor
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9. Jerzy Kosinski - Being There ***½
10. Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night ****
11. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 ****
12. Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time **½
13. Tobias Wolff - The Barr ... Mother Night + The Fifth Child + The Woman in White = four books? Somehow, yes.
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Mother Night ****
by Kurt Vonnegut
03/18/08
The Fifth Child ***
by Doris Lessing
03/19/08
The Woman in White (#45) ****½
by Wilkie Collins
03/19/08 14F.) Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
My "purse book". A re-read, of course...one of my favorite Vonnegut novels. Dark and depressing, full of gallows humor, this book shows that no court can judge a person guilty or innocent of evil; we know the line between good and evil, and we can only ... This should prove to be a fun way to add a little variety to this years reading.
{Original Challenge completed June, 24th}
Categories now start at Message 12-20, 26, 33. 39, 50 ... see how they 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 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 ... The Fountain, granted I feel it was flawed in many ways, but still...
About 15 years ago a scene in Mother night had me bawling, primarily because the soundtrack for this one sequence was Fratres by Arvo Paert which I also heard performed live by Kronos Quartet. ... Kress
Saviour by Nancy Kress
Antibodies by Charles Stross
Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny
Mother Hitton's Littu Kittons by Cordwainer Smith
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, if I had to pick JUST one.
Kurt Vonnegut is definitely, by and large, my favorite author. Slaughterhouse Five.
Actually, of the four Vonnegut novels I've read, the only one I've liked at all is Mother Night. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, or anything by him; this is my favorite.
Chaos - Making a New Science by James Gleick
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Franny and Zooey or any of the Glass Family stories by J.D. Salinger
Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carrol ... ... of mine gave me God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and proceeded to plow through the bulk of his novels. Sirens of Titan and Mother Night (which received the best film adaptation of any of his novels, in my opinion) are recent favorites. It always makes me happy to read one of his books I haven't ... ... few years, and some of them are truly moving. Our world is poorer for having lost his voice.
I think my favorite is Mother Night. ... bad scifi...
If you're taking this as an opportunity to read Vonnegut, I would try God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Mother Night. I think those two are his best. Very sad news, indeed.
#4 - My favorite by Vonnegut has always been Mother Night, but my husband prefers The Sirens of Titan. I would highly recommend either one. ... my favourite of her work so far that I've read was pussy king of the pirates - though I'm desperate to get my hands on my mother: demenology and kathy goes to haiti. I still haven't finished my copy of empire of the senseless although I've really been enjoying it. ... on the floor in an advanced state of withdrawal after reading the last word of each of their books (Les Miserables, Mother Night, Of Human Bondage, and Catcher in the Rye, respectively). I still feel, with the exception of Franny and Zooey in Salinger's case, that the first books I ... ... Bragg does it and makes it look easy.
I gave my 15-year-old son Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle - he just read and enjoyed Mother Night, as I certainly did, for the first time, at his age - and Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book. (What can I say...he loves the '60s).
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