# Favorite Vonnegut books? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037 "2004-03-24T01:10:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Apoptosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Apoptosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apoptosis)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/21 "2004-03-24T20:55:43Z")
Kurt Vonnegut has stated that **Galapagos** was his best book (see **Fates Worse Than Death** ). For what it’s worth, I agree with him. I also thoroughly enjoyed **Cat’s Cradle** and **Bluebeard**. -Apoptosis ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/22 "2004-03-25T01:51:00Z")
Speaking of Vonnegutesque writers, is anything by Richard Brautigan still in print? I have vague but pleasant memories of his work, and it seems connected in my mind with Vonnegut, only more poetical. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/23 "2004-03-25T07:23:55Z")
The Sirens of Titan. Many years ago, I had a lot of trouble in school due to it’s cover. [neon sign] So it goes So it goes So it goes [/neon sign] ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/24 "2004-03-25T08:00:59Z")
Sirens of Titan, for the greatest Martian invasion ever imagined, among other things. Mother Night is also fantastic. Been quite a few years since I’ve read it, but I remember that it was one of the best. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/25 "2004-03-25T15:43:35Z")
1. Sirens of Titan “… echo through the vaulted architecture of the universe…” 2. Cats Cradle 3. Slaughterhouse 5 or The Children’s Crusade 4. Venus on the Half-shelf No, wait. Strike that last one. Sorry. “Breakfast of Champions” was a turning point where he just went Somewhere Else. Of his later works, only “God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian” wowwed me. But it really isn’t a book. A very small collection of very short essays. A 20 minute read. Isaac Newton standing at the Pearly Gates asking newcomers for data on the path to heaven is great. Wasn’t Kigore Trout supposed to die a year or two ago? “Freshman Physics is invariably the most satisfying course taught by any American university.” ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/26 "2004-03-25T16:08:35Z")
You can’t really go wrong with any of them. I would be hard pressed to rank them. Aw hell, I’ll do it anyway: _Cat’s Cradle Slaughterhouse Five Galapogos Sirens of Titan Breakfast of Champions Welcome to the Monkey House Mother Night_ (probably the “least Vonnegutesque” of his books, in that the weirdness isn’t at the forefront) _Bluebeard Slapstick God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater_ The OP is discovering Vonnegut at about the same age I did. I was first turned on to him after I wrote a short story for an English class and my teacher said it was like “Harrison Bergeron.” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/27 "2004-03-25T21:10:08Z")
The only Vonnegut I’ve read was _Welcome to the Monkey House_, which is a compilation of short stories. Kind of uneven, ranging from the magnificent to the merely blah. I don’t recall any of the stories actually being bad, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037/28 "2004-03-26T00:57:37Z")
Cats Cradle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-vonnegut-books/236037.md?page=1)