Is Vonnegut solidly in YA tier is he worth reading? I have read Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, and Sirens of Titan in my teenage years, and have a few more remaining on my shelf that I never read. They were fun books but they were very light, almost like light novels that I read when I was a teenager too. Most of them had a very obvious, shallow message, and Breakfast of Champions didn't seem to have a message at all.
>>7482231
>Most of them had a very obvious, shallow message
>message
you're gonna be a pleb no matter what you read if you keep up this simplistic conception of literature.
>>7482237
Red pill us, bro! Is it too unnuanced to think that a book might have a moral? Let's hear your regurgitated thoughts on authorship, meaning, etc. pretentious cunt.
>>7482340
>your regurgitated thoughts
>implying 'muh message' instrumentalism isn't regurgitation of middle school literary criticism
if you didn't want to talk to pretentious people why did you come here asking for their validation
>>7482367
>HAHAHAH LE BUTTHOLE SO IT GOES (IN LE BUTTHOLE) XDDD
vonnegut fans in a nutshell
>>7482231
Vonnegut only gets worse as you get older, so try them now before it's too late.
Ooh, wow, gosh, yipes!
A lighthearted humor writer born almost a hundred years ago doesn't resonate with you, your opinions are so profound and insightful and cultural and original
Get over yourself. Vonnegut is pretty inoffensive. If you feel the need to brag about how you dislike well loved authors like him on the internet you're probably into the arts for all the wrong reasons and part of the website's shittiest community
Try some of the short stories.
I approach Vonnegut as a vector these days: his stories are invaluable as starting places for other ventures. I read him regularly when tasked with designing something, almost as an exercise in plumbing the obvious. The ways in which he plumbed the possibilities of that with which was around him is worth moving on.
>>7482237
It's plebby to read a novel looking for a message. But it's plebbier to write a novel that has a message, which is what Kurt Vonnegut did.
>>7482488
No he wouldn't, as long as the art was great. Menstrual splatters for their own sake or trendy art for the sake of profit are the things he hated.
Look for God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian and Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons.
The former is told in the form of a series of interviews conducted by the author with various deceased figures after being temporarily killed by Dr. Kevorkian.
The latter is a collection of essays, speeches, and interviews of his. Especially interesting are the glimpses into events in his life like when he visited Nigeria during their civil war and witnessed some astonishingly horrific, and some astonishingly beautiful things.
>>7482478
Every significant novel is about something of importance the writer wanted to tell the reader. Whether you agree or understand it or not is another matter, but if you think that the only good books are the ones where the author has nothing valuable to say, you're going to have a hard time finding quality writing.
>>7482427
never read vonnegut in my life m8
stay mad
>>7482864
>Every significant novel is about something of importance the writer wanted to tell the reader
>novels are just long fortune cookies
>but if you think that the only good books are the ones where the author has nothing valuable to say
>muh dichotomies
jeez the plebs are out in full force tonight
>>7482886
Time to back up your claims with evidence my man. Name a book considered to be of literary merit that makes no attempt to persuade or introduce a new idea to the reader, and isn't designed to be incomprehensible.
