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Betazep

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Slaughterhouse 5
« on: June 22, 2006, 11:16:43 PM »
So I am reading another Kurt Vonnegut book.  It is pretty good thus far.

I recently finished Cat's Cradle.  That book was amazing.
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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2006, 11:48:02 PM »
Yeah, I liked Slaughterhouse Five. "So it goes."

I guess I should read Cat's Cradle.

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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2006, 12:44:50 AM »
Ugh, I had to write a paper on Vonnegut for a class a year or two ago. Weird.

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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2006, 08:13:12 AM »
Betazep, you're a little late for the book club.

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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2006, 12:30:48 PM »
>>Cat's Cradle<<

Ice9? "It's all a pack of foma, it's all a pack of lies"? Wampeters, foma and granfaloons?

If so, very good. I've always liked Vonnegut, well his earlier stuff anyway. His later books were too dull and introspective for me.
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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2006, 12:30:59 PM »
Betazep, you're a little late for the book club.

lol I wanted to post something along the same lines ;)
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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2006, 08:51:37 PM »
>>Cat's Cradle<<

Ice9? "It's all a pack of foma, it's all a pack of lies"? Wampeters, foma and granfaloons?

If so, very good. I've always liked Vonnegut, well his earlier stuff anyway. His later books were too dull and introspective for me.

I adore Cat's Cradle. Slaughterhouse Five and Sirens of Titan are also fantastic; I picked up Sirens of Titan on a whim once, and to this day it's one of my favorite books, even among the rest of his canon.

I'll agree on the later books, though. Timequake was interesting for what it was, but...eh.

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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2006, 06:15:18 PM »
Betazep, you're a little late for the book club.

lol I wanted to post something along the same lines ;)

What do you guys mean?
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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2006, 09:06:26 PM »
Betazep, you're a little late for the book club.

lol I wanted to post something along the same lines ;)

What do you guys mean?

we tried starting a book club some months ago - and S5 was the first book we have read :)
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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2006, 11:34:19 PM »
Ahh.... it is all so clear now.
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." -Nathaniel Borenstein

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Re: Slaughterhouse 5
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2006, 06:59:37 PM »
He's good, but he's no Dan Brown ;)
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