Entries Tagged as 'Kurt Vonnegut'
Funny fiction Part II
Part I and voila! now Part II.
So now I have to ask, what are some books that you’ve found funny, and if you mention Lamb by Christopher Moore, I will cut you.
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
I’ve written about this book here and here. It is totally worthy of your time.
Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
Here [...]
The Vonnegut of my dreams
There was a great flood. I think that maybe the Minnesota River had overflown its banks and flooded most of Shakopee. I had to jump from a plane with a parachute to get anywhere. When I got home, Kurt Vonnegut was sitting at the dining room table in Supergenius HQ. He was using my old [...]
Read moreThe Origins of Slaughterhouse Five
Steve Almond on the origin’s of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.
Read moreVonnegut’s rules
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing Fiction (ironically) five is my favorite, “Start as close to the end as possible.”
Read moreOn class, comic books, and crackpot theory #29
In class on Thursday we workshopped a story that had a wonderful premise. In the story a man is afflicted with all the diseases ever, a condition called Itisitis. With the Itisitis comes a superpower, the ability to give it away. Anyway, like I said, the premise was pretty kick ass.
So, as it often [...]
November 11th should be a holy day
Six old men I wish I could have had sex with when they were in their prime
• Bob Dylan
• Mick Jagger
• Tom Brokaw
• Cary Grant
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Buddy Holly
yeah, the work today is sucking out every brain cell that I used to own.
mmm, a saturday morning book meme to get the weekend back on track
kelly has asked me to take part in a fun little book meme. fun!
how many books do you own?
gee, by my best guess right now i have about 400 on the bookshelves. you can look at old pictures of my shelves from 2 years ago. plus theres the 100+ Sweet Valley High Books packed away [...]
keep passing the open windows
in John Irving’s Hotel New Hamsphire one of the characters kills herself by leaping out of an open window. it’s been nearly a dozen years since i’ve read Irving’s novel, but i think she kills herself because she has writer’s block or something. at least, that’s what i’ve decided. I might have to add Hotel [...]
Read morefunky foot love
the first time i read Cat’s Cradle i must have been in my 20s. when i re-read it this week as part of RP2005, it was as though i was reading it again for the first time. i knew the basic premise of the story, but so much of it i didn’t remember. since i [...]
Read morereading influences
Yesterday UH left a comment that in my honor he was gonna read The Catcher in the Rye this year. He’s never read it before. Which amazes me a little, because I had to read it in high school. I thought it was one of them books that everyone had to read before they graduated [...]
Read morethe as yet unmentioned reading plan is mentioned
now that we’re nearly two weeks into 2005, i’ve finally decided to go public with my reading plan. yeah, i’m that nerdy that i have a reading plan for the year. i had one last year too. RP2004 was to alternate between novels and a collection of short stories. i needed to expose myself to [...]
Read morewearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door
i’m working from home today. generally this means sitting around in pajama-like clothing with unbrushed hair eating pancakes. today, this is not the case at all. today i had to get dressed and brush my hair. i did however, just eat some delicious peanut butter pancakes so the day isn’t totally wasted. but i had [...]
Read moreDancing For All the World to See
There’s been a break in the time-space continuum. At least tonight there’s been a break. I’ve recently listened to Kurt Vonnegut’s “Timequake.” In the novel, Vonnegut writes about a break in the time-space continuum during 2001 causing the entire universe to rewind to 1991. During the 10 years of the timequake, everything is repeated exactly [...]
Read moreDirty Little Secrets
I fell in love with books at an early age. Allegedly my favorite book when I was three was “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” I memorized it. Of course I say allegedly, because I don’t remember this.
I think my book tastes developed normally. I fell in love with Beverly Cleary’s Ramona in grade school. [...]
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