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by Kurt Vonnegut

Like most who have read it, I read it when I was younger, probably 20 or so. Much different read when your older then Billy Pilgrim and understand what life somtimes deals out. I thought is was "cool" then, very different experience now. Since I was a double major in Philosphy and Lit there are a bunch of books I read then, which I think were important in shaping my thinking that I think would be worth "re-reading" now. Reading this again wasn't really re-reading because I'm not the same. Maybe "The Brothers Karamozov" next.

A top 10 book.

ab g-d wrote: Like most who have read it, I read it when I was younger, probably 20 or so. Much different read when your older then Billy Pilgrim and understand what life somtimes deals out.

Yes.

So it goes.

You make a good point about revisiting literature from the perspective of who you are today.

I've been thinking about reading Atlas Shrugged again for that reason.

ab g-d wrote:by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Brothers Karamozov" next.

Foxy, Vonnegut stated in either "Slaughterhouse - Five" or "Cat's Cradle" that "everything that anyone needed to know about life could be found in The Brothers Karamozov."

I started reading TBK a few times, but couldn't find the "stick-to-itivness" to make it all the way through.

Dos' makes for good reading.

Erada79 wrote:

ab g-d wrote:by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Brothers Karamozov" next.

Foxy, Vonnegut stated in either "Slaughterhouse - Five" or "Cat's Cradle" that "everything that anyone needed to know about life could be found in The Brothers Karamozov."

I started reading TBK a few times, but couldn't find the "stick-to-itivness" to make it all the way through.

Dos' makes for good reading.

Did you read "The Grand Inquistor" section?

GoDogGo! wrote:

Erada79 wrote:

ab g-d wrote:by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Brothers Karamozov" next.

Foxy, Vonnegut stated in either "Slaughterhouse - Five" or "Cat's Cradle" that "everything that anyone needed to know about life could be found in The Brothers Karamozov."

I started reading TBK a few times, but couldn't find the "stick-to-itivness" to make it all the way through.

Dos' makes for good reading.

Did you read "The Grand Inquistor" section?

Is the Pope Catholic?

I did read the GI section, GDG. In fact, IIRC, that section is a book itself. I held up well in my LIT class when we were reading Kafka, Camus and Dos.

Have you read TBK,GDG?

Erada79 wrote:Foxy, Vonnegut stated in either "Slaughterhouse - Five" or "Cat's Cradle" that "everything that anyone needed to know about life could be found in The Brothers Karamozov."

Of course, that was before The Godfather Part I had come out.

I'm reading War & Peace right now. Really good book so far.

Erada79 wrote: I did read the GI section, GDG. In fact, IIRC, that section is a book itself. I held up well in my LIT class when we were reading Kafka, Camus and Dos.

Have you read TBK,GDG?

Nope. GI, Anna Karenina, some Gogol short stories. That's it for Russians. Oh, and "The Cherry Orchard" and such.
Camus, yes. The Stranger, The Plague.

nafod wrote:

Erada79 wrote:Foxy, Vonnegut stated in either "Slaughterhouse - Five" or "Cat's Cradle" that "everything that anyone needed to know about life could be found in The Brothers Karamozov."

Of course, that was before The Godfather Part I had come out.

I'm reading War & Peace right now. Really good book so far.

Excellent book. One of my favorite books on russian lit is:

http://www.amazon.com/Tolstoy-Dostoevsk ... 0300069170

Great comparison and contrast of the two authors, if you're a literacy criticism nerd.

I think Tugenev's "Fathers and Sons" is the most underated russian novel, the RKC of russian novels if you will.

Camus is the man, period.

ab g-d wrote:
Camus is the man, period.

I think it's in The Last Man that the first scene has the main character at fortysomething standing over his fathers grave. He had died in his teens or early twenties in ww1 or ww2. When I was 19 a friend of mine passed away at 23. I knew he was young but he had seemed so much older than me. Years later I happened to be in the area and stopped by his grave. It was strange looking at that stone in honor of a man that died several years younger than me.

ab g-d wrote:I think Tugenev's "Fathers and Sons" is the most underated russian novel

Haven't read it, Bill. I'll have to check it out.

greystuff wrote:

ab g-d wrote:
Camus is the man, period.

I think it's in The Last Man that the first scene has the main character at fortysomething standing over his fathers grave. He had died in his teens or early twenties in ww1 or ww2. When I was 19 a friend of mine passed away at 23. I knew he was young but he had seemed so much older than me. Years later I happened to be in the area and stopped by his grave. It was strange looking at that stone in honor of a man that died several years younger than me.

The First Man is a great book.