>>7994567
Because EVERYONE loves Vonnegut, because he's great and accessible.

/lit/ attempts to be better than everyone else, not in HOW they read, but in WHAT they read.
Everyone outside of this little community who reads loves Vonnegut. Therefore, if /lit/ is to maintain its "better than" status, they must reject Vonnegut.
The truth of the matter is that most people on /lit/ have never read much Vonnegut. They claim to have read Pynchon -- the "better Vonnegut" -- but truthfully they only read 25 pages of Gravity's Rainbow and then pretended to understand the writing style while searching the plot elsewhere.

READ VONNEGUT /LIT/. HE IS PYNCHON IF PYNCHON HAD A SOUL AND ACTUALLY TRIED TO BE ENJOYABLE. STOP GIVING IN TO PINECONE'S BS.

I liked Vonnegut when I was younger. I tried reading Jailbird yesterday but it didn't hold my attention. I think it's one of his shit books, though. His writing style is fun. He's simple and easy.

So it goes.

I like Vonnegut because he's imaginative but still has something powerful to say. Fiction that's too obsessed over being real is boring to me. Vonnegut is just fun.

>>7994596
I've read all his novels, Jailbird was the last one I read and it's not great.

i don't hate him but i think he's overrated. he's ok but i don't see why people fawn over him.

vonnegut is the inception of books - he's fine and not -bad-, but the more you read the shittier he looks in comparison. but people freak out over him like they do over inception cause fo rmany people of a certain age it's the first time they've been exposed to something that's a hair "deeper" than the most basic shit

>>7994567
SMUGNESS
I share his positions on nearly everything, but God-damn is he smug. I can't possibly imagine someone with a different view reading one of his books and becoming more open to his ideas because the tone can be so repellent.

>>7994583
I was agreeing with this post until that anti-Pynchon diatribe.

I am a great fan of Kurt Vonnegut but you sound just bitter to have never been able to penetrate a Pynchon novel.

Pynchon's novels are some of the most pure joy I've ever found. I could reread his first three until I die.

>>7994637
>V. and Lot 49 over Mason and Dixon
Come on son

>>7994676
>V. and Lot 49 over Mason and Dixon
Easily. I consider Lot 49 pretty much as perfect a novel as there can be.