‘Good’ Bye, Hello Kurt
Last night The Turtle Party: Book Club finally managed to meet again after too many weeks of delay. Altho we were one member short, we managed to finally get around to discussing our first book selection Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Overall, we liked the book as a group … tho, some people had difficulty or just didn’t like the British humor. Our discussion veered off into the realm of religion and really made for an interesting conversation. It was really cool to hear everyone’s perspectives on the book, whether they liked it or not, which made the whole thing more enlightening overall. We had a really great discussion.
Tamar brought a selection of 4 books for us to vote on as our next selection and we decided as a group to read Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions as our next book:
I haven’t read any of Vonnegut’s work so I’m really excited to check out this book. The next meeting of The Turtle Party: Book Club will be on October 6 and those who are reading along should have read up to the end of chapter 15 by that meeting time.
Tonight I have plans to meet up with Darion and Josh for dinner and/or a movie so that should be fun. Nothing too exciting going on this week … which is just the way I like it :)
Tags: 'Breakfast of Champions', Kurt Vonnegut, The Turtle Party: Book Club
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September 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
I’m calling it early: Trent, you will be disappointed.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I love Kurt. I love Breakfast of Champions. Seriously, I wish I can write as well as Kurt did.
-meream
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Kurt Vonnegut is my hero – Breakfast of Champions is good, but not his strongest work. Check out Cat’s Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse Five or Slapstick (his best, in my opinion). :)
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Vonnegut is excellent. Though he gave BoC a D when he graded it himself, it’s still one of my favorites.
his short stories collections (try welcome to the monkey house) are also amazing for anyone with less of an attention span :)
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
i love good omens and everything kurt vonnegut, both are excellent writers. i have a tattoo from good omens on my back and a tattoo from slaughterhouse 5 on my chest, how funny.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Trent, how can you, of all people, never have read Vonnegut?
Enjoy… :)
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I’m on chapter 8 already. :3
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I’m being lame…does anyone know if there’s a link to Trent’s bookclub posts…duh…
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
@Leslie — The “books” category shows every post where I talk about books: http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/category/books/ and the ‘On My Radar’ link at the top of the page lists all the things I’m reading/listening to/watching at the moment: http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/on-my-radar/
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
slaughter house five is awesome,you should give it a try as well. Just a suggestion ;)
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Kurt Vonnegut is amazing! Check out Welcome to the Monkey House. It’s a collection of short stories by him. Some of them are a bit weird and kind of boring but the rest, like Harrison Burgeron and Welcome to the Monkey House, are superb!
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
vonnegut is the king! cat’s cradle and slaughterhouse five are must-reads, and mother night too. in fact, just read everything – you will be a better man for it. seriously.
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Breakfast of Champions is not the best. Try Galapagos before you decide about KV!
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
i love slapstick! favorite vonnegut book. the short story anthologies (welcome to the monkey house, bagombo snuff box, etc.) are really good intros to his oeuvre for the uninitiated (that’s where i started). enjoy!
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
one of my favorite authors
September 24th, 2009 at 5:01 am
I liked Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five. Enjoy :)
September 24th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Never read the book… saw the movie years ago… can’t say that I want to read the book now.
September 25th, 2009 at 9:29 am
i just finished Cat’s Cradle and it was amazing. Last month I read Slaughterhouse also pretty cool…
I wanna read the rest and Breakfast of Champions is next on my list…