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Huge shoutout to my local used book shop for this beautiful 1982 Vonnegut!

Vonnegut is always good writing and interesting story. The characters were interesting as always. Loved the intertwining with Breakfast of Champions.
Overall excellent book!
4.8 ⭐️ a few things and wording I could have done without.
Of course you should read it it‘s Vonnegut! 😁

My next bedside stack. I feel like I need to throw another non-fic in there.
And yes I keep toys on my work desk lol 😆

📚 Tagged/Death in Her Hands/Delicious Foods/Diviners/Dread Journey
🖋️PK Dick/(John) Danielle/ (Patrick) deWitt/Didion/Dickinson/du Maurier
🎬 Dog Day Afternoon/Dancer in the Dark/Dead Ringers/Dead Zone/Les Diaboliques/La Dolce Vita/Dr. Strangelove
🎤(Miles) Davis/Devotchka/D'Angelo/Do Make Say Think/Daniel Johnston/Dirty 3
🎧Days Like These (Low)/Dance of the Clairvoyants (Pearl Jam)/Do You Realize (Flaming Lips)/ Damage (Yo La Tengo)/ 👇

Stories within stories. Puzzles within mysteries.
At times it rambles on with lesser characters with whom it‘s tough to see their purpose within the larger plot. Not ha-ha funny; amusing and ironic.

#bookspinbonanza book 4
@TheAromaofBooks

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: watch out for life.”

#riotgrams #day4 - #stacksonstacks

Went on a bit of a shopping spree today. Take a guess which title I'm likely to finish first.

Deadeye Dick strikes me as the most “normal” novel I‘ve read by Kurt Vonnegut. There‘s no gimmicky time travel, alien invasion, or ice-9. Instead, there‘s an ordinary kid from a midwestern town who discovers the horrors of firearms. This novel takes a strong stance against guns. Vonnegut favors LIFE over weapons, drugs, and capitalism. It ranks as one of my medium favorite Vonnegut novels! 💣

1️⃣ Science fiction
2️⃣ Kurt Vonnegut
3️⃣ Cat‘s Cradle
4️⃣ Christian fiction
5️⃣ Tagged!
@wanderinglynn #hellothursday

I'm being cheap and posting two for the price of one for #sisforseptember ! Days 25 #secondhand and 26 #sillytitle goes to Vonnegut! I can't even remember where I got this little gem. I'm curious how many hands this old boy's been in... This book looks like it has seen some stuff! @CaliforniaCay

Reading, my wedding, and my honeymoon collided right about the time I started this. Thankfully it‘s a quick read. This is Vonnegut‘s parable about the loss of innocence, and it‘s classic Vonnegut.

I give you a holy word.

Honestly, 90% of my enjoyment comes from structure. Possibly a slight exaggeration. Minimalism with a few hooks. Spoilers in advance of the action. Recipe breaks. Imagined playlets stand in for conflict. The easy listening of my late night reading. I might be Rudy Waltz.

1. Fave dessert: Does fried cheese count? Avocado?
2. Netflix binge: Godless. Loved it.
3. Annoying book: A history textbook full of exclamation points. Full! No, really! There were a lot of them!
4. Some number of days.
5. Oakley dokely.

#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

I've been reading a dozen books or so at a time since forever. I think this should be a problem but it's not. I don't fight it. Meet my new friend, Deadeye Dick.

Also, we just finished watching Godless! Goes well with one of my other friends, Blood Meridian.

“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.”

Life is the opening and closing of “peepholes” in time, each peephole telling a story. There‘s quite a bit going on here, but it focuses largely on the loss of innocence, life‘s story, and life‘s epilogue. Rudy Waltz fast became one of my favorite KV creations. His recipes and memory playlets added a layer of complexity to the character and style.

I absolutely love everything about Vonnegut and his writing style. I absorbed this day in two days. It was a quick read and very insightful.

"All that remains ... is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is."
Did Vonnegut capture the insidious nature of modern life, the root of quiet desperation, the thing that drives people to look for more, more, more? I think he did. And in his inimitable way, he ties it to America, drug addiction, aging... every facet of life & living he can.
Vonnegut is good for your soul, even when you can't tell. Maybe especially then.
Read this book?

Yes. This. Every day.

Oh, Vonnegut, how I love you ❤️

Favorite hot drink: coffee! Especially in my Vonnegut mug #autumnreads

I love Kurt Vonnegut's writing style. He always included such gems as this to give perspective on life.

#bookmail

#riotgrams
#cookbook
This Vonnegut book contains numerous recipes from one of the characters. In his wonderful book about books, "The Year of Reading Dangerously" Andy Miller prepared the recipes featured in an Iris Murdoch book. It would be interesting to do something similar with Vonnegut's book.

Set in Midland City, Ohio, this novel features a few of Vonnegut's recurring concerns, albeit not as systematically pursued as in other novels. Celia, Dwayne & Bunny Hoover (from "Breakfast of Champions") are featured & in the final third of the book Vonnegut writes memorably about mental illness & prescription medication addiction (one of his subjects in BOC). Recipes are interspersed with an interesting narrative & well-crafted zany sentences.

Several great lines peppered throughout this book.

#booksandbreakfast
I can't think of a better way to start out 2017 than coffee cake and Vonnegut.

"To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life" Kurt Vonnegut always has killer opening lines! #greatopeninglines #booktober

Of course it was good. Did KV write anything not good?

Kurt Vonnegut's typewriter, Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

Reading Vonnegut in Indianapolis. Visiting the Vonnegut Memorial Library later today.

Perhaps not Vonnegut's greatest (which would be Sirens of Titan), but even his "lesser" books are better than anything else.

"What, incidentally, was a pregnant mother of two doing, operating a vacuum cleaner on Mother's Day? She was practically asking for a bullet between the eyes, wasn't she?"

Going on an overnight trip this weekend. Throwing this one into my backpack.