A "high brow" Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams. Is there any author more overrated than Kurt Vonnegut?
A "high brow" Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams. Is there any author more overrated than Kurt Vonnegut?
A "high brow" Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams. Is there any author more overrated than Kurt Vonnegut?
I mean from a transgender perspective
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He's a low brow Pynchon, more like.
Pynchon is low brow himself
Pynchon is middle brow
Does that mean the entire meme trilogy is lowbrow?
Ulysses is high brow. IJ is middle brow
No one actually talks about him here unless they’re trying to bash him. So I’d wager he’s neither overrated or underrated.
Are you seriously saying IQfy is representative of our culture as a whole? Midwits can't shut up about him.
It’s increasingly becoming so…
True. Lots of memes come from here. Like the giga chad meme, cope & seethe, etc
>A "high brow" Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams
I mean that sounds pretty great
If you watch his interviews on YouTube you see he's a friendly old geezer which goes a long way in helping you to read him.
That isn't going to nullify the fact that Slaughterhouse Five was one of the worst books I ever read.
I like the structure. It reminded me of 8 1/2.
The part where the POW’s were putting on a play and the main character started laughing till he was shrieking and had to be taken to the hospital had me in stitches. That’s pretty much all I remember from it 15-20 years ago. Certainly not a terrible book. It is what it is
The part where he ends up in the alien zoo was completely moronic and shoehorned in.
Yeah, but imagine getting to have sex with a hot woman...perhaps now you understand why that it is in the book
Anyone read Player Piano? I can't be the only one. I liked it!
Ol' Kurt is similar to Orwell or Huxley in that his books are the intro to literature worth reading, which is why he's read in late middle school/early high school. For 95% of people that is the point where their reading ends, thus they believe him to be a master.
His books are good for a cooldown afrer reading something rigorous or if you're on vacation and need something easy to read.
This is probably true, but I have never been able to past page 40 or so in any of his works. I can't stand how smart he thinks he is and his cynical atttitude is just angst without substance.
Yes his Cornell chum, the one with buck teeth
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