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I mean, if you haven't read Slaughterhouse Five go read that immediately, of course, but I assume everyone's heard of Vonnegut already.

Not the reshared Vonnegut quotes, but simply living with an awareness of others emotions.

Dante does it, Cervantes does it, Vonnegut does it, Borges does it.

Train rides can be spent doing whatever the hell I want, including eating Captain Crunch while reading Kurt Vonnegut (my favorite pastime).

HN featured a bit from Vonnegut on that point yesterday.

A History of Western Philosophy -- Russell Vonnegut in general.

So according to your logic, a person requires a level of success approximately on par with a Vonnegut to appreciate an errand to the post office?

Recently read and most recommended: * Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin * Slaughterhouse Five..., Vonnegut --- I'm in the middle of Ready Player One.

Those are my three favorite Vonnegut novels.

:-) Reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut scene in Back to School.

Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle are probably his two most widely-read and widely-referenced books, so if you haven't read those yet and you're still on a Vonnegut kick after those three, maybe read them.

In a list of books of Vonnegut which I read, there is no Galapagos, no Mother Night, no Sirens of Titan, no Player Piano, and that's pretty all.

I was sad to realize Kurt Vonnegut's summary of the monomyth is probably correct: "The hero gets into trouble.

It's roughly the underlying tension in Vonnegut's "Player Piano" as well.

Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Player Piano" depicts a society in which only engineers and their managers have jobs, everyone else is provided everything they require except something to do.

While it's not about technical writing I think Kurt Vonnegut's advice will help you to make a better write up.

It's absolutely wonderful, and one of the most readable things I've ever seen from Vonnegut.

Vonnegut judged his own work by slightly different metrics: 1.