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Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by gwbas1c on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:56PM (#23249126)
I clicked on the link to "Cat's Cradle." That looks like a really cool book!
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by sixstringtheory on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:01PM (#23249179)
Highly recommend. It’s a good intro book to Vonnegut, the other being Slaughterhouse 5. Or maybe those are just my favorites!

Very effective mixes of comedy and tragedy, prose that borders on poetry at times, very imaginative concepts. He’s able to walk you over that threshold of disbelief almost before you even realize it.

Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by MengerSponge on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:25PM (#23249430)
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of excellent short stories that includes "Harrison Bergeron". "The Euphio Question" haunts me to this day
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by jdoliner on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:11PM (#23249279)
Highly recommend it, it's got cool scifi elements but isn't hard scifi with a lot of world building. The story telling is great though, it's funny and poignant. One of the few books I've read multiple times.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by MengerSponge on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:23PM (#23249405)
Yep. It's brutal satire, not hard scifi.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by throwaway_pdp09 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:29PM (#23251390)
Couldn't say I liked Cat's Cradle but Slaughterhouse 5 was one of the best and most moving books I've ever read. I guess try them both and decide.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by anarbadalov on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:44PM (#23250299)
i wish i could read this again for the first time. so much brilliance in these pages, and a perfect reflection of Vonnegut's bizarre imagination.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by dekhn on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:56AM (#23259988)
I think the most underrated is Sirens of Titan. It's a bit strange and convoluted.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by twic on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:02PM (#23253029)
It's great. Player Piano is another of Vonnegut's books i really like.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater by gwbas1c on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:49PM (#23251618)
Note: I made this comment when this thread linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater instead of the current page.