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1  2:25am 15/12/04        
friend of the sleeping pill
Well.

Go on.

Do it.
2  2:58am 15/12/04        
Back with a Vengeance
Kurt Vonnegut is so cool.
3  3:40am 15/12/04        
fuck that duck
About that.

No.
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-Mitch Hedberg
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4  5:32am 17/12/04        
The Dark Prince<br><b>Official TRF IQ Rater</b>
Who?
5  2:11pm 17/12/04        
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Jedi Masterwan ... ... Shaken, Not Stirred
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
Bananas
6  4:58pm 17/12/04        
El mas chingon!
He wrote "Slaughterhouse Five."

I think it is also a movie, but not sure.
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7  4:11pm 18/12/04        
friend of the sleeping pill
I've never seen the movie
I've only read the book.
The book is very good,
Definitely worth a look.
8  4:12pm 18/12/04        
friend of the sleeping pill
I can't fucking believe I just posted that...
9  5:29pm 18/12/04        
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lol...nice!


I'll take that as a recommendation. :p

Recommend anymore?...
10  4:20pm 19/12/04        
friend of the sleeping pill
Slapstick, Sirens of Titan, Galapagos, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House (which is short stories). Really anything you can find by him. My local library has a pretty good selection so I usually go there every week and pick something up.

Sirens of Titan is one of the best of the ones I mentioned. It's different because it's one of his first books, and he hadn't developed the writing style he uses in Slapstick and Slaughterhouse-5, so it's not as funny. It definitely has a "first book" feel (even though I'm fairly sure it wasn't his very first) in that he goes after some very big, broad ideas -- it's a statement novel, essentially, a writer trying to make his mark. The difference is that Sirens of Titan is actually really good. Not just in a nihilistic sense either, because Vonnegut actually answers the fundamental questions he asks about life. Which takes balls.

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