Thread: Kurt Vonnegut

Has anyone read or is reading "Armageddon in Retrospect"? Whatcha think?

No, but I just finished reading the Piano Player and thought it was alright, although alright in the sense that it was his first novel (which was inspired alot by 1984) and that it's alot better than most first novels, but not better than Vonnegut's other works.

I'm getting around to his later works.

It's quite interesting. I'm brand new to Vonnegut. I'm only seventy pages into Slaughterhouse 5 - the first of his I've read - but I absolutely love him so far. My brother got "Armageddon in Retrospect" as a gift at Christmas and doesn't even read, so I snatched it up to see what it was all about.

It's a collection of previously unpublished short stories. I've only read three of them, but the three I read I really liked. He's a very interesting writer. I'd say it's worth checking out.