13 days ago by Typehype

“How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” The inimitable Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five First, let me apologize to all who subscribe to my blog — twice today, I hit the “PUBLISH” button while writing this post instead of the “SAVE DRAFT” button. Consequently, the pos ...

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16 days ago by Luigi Fracchia

“Trout aveva scritto un libro su un albero che faceva i soldi. Aveva come foglie dei biglietti da venti dollari. I suoi fiori erano titoli di stato. I suoi frutti erano diamanti. Attirava gli esseri umani, che si ammazzavano tra loro intorno alle sue radici e così diventavano un ottimo fertilizzante ...

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17 days ago by abstractplane

If you guys haven’t discovered Wattpad, I recommend it as a fun place to post your stories and get unfiltered feedback. For the past week I’ve been a featured author with my new wacky science fiction novel Space Command and the Planet of the Bejewelled Concubines. (Check out my Wattpad profile here: ...

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18 days ago by Chet

Undeniably, Slaughterhouse Five is one of my all time favorite books. People who know me can attest to this based on my willingness to read it more than once. The list of books which I am happy to read again, or stories I want to wander back through is a very short list. Vonnegut’s tale of Billy Pil ...

Chet Reads & Writes* - chetgassett.com · 2 references

28 days ago by Pavel

This review is written in English because I have read an English edition of this book. It was quite easy and rather fun, because of Vonnegut's writing style. But I have to admit that I had some difficulties with vocabulary. However, with kindle reader it was challenging and it helped me to fill my p ...

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28 days ago by kdyancy

by Keith Yancy This is not a rant. Rather than railing on my own opinions as I await the decision of my local school administration regarding the possibility of removing books from my daughter’s “opt-in,” AP (college level) curriculum, I thought I’d share a few points made by people much wiser than ...

Counterpoint - counterpoint22.wordpress.com · 3 references

31 days ago by kdyancy

by Keith Yancy NOTE: The following letter was written in response to a situation unfolding at my high-school-age daughter’s school. In short, a group of parents are trying to remove several books from an Advanced Placement Literature class, despite the class being voluntary and parents being provide ...

Counterpoint - counterpoint22.wordpress.com · 3 references

38 days ago by Norb Vonnegut

It was a balmy 53 degrees on New Year's Day in Narragansett, the perfect temperature for a Polar Bear Plunge. Global warming style, that is. I'm standing here with my son and daughter before our big race into the ocean. After pictures not available!

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38 days ago by Kirby

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. ...

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41 days ago by jacobschriftman

I started the new year on a cheerful note with Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, the queer novel about the allied bombings of Dresden during WWII. Here’s a hauntingly beautiful passage from the book, imagining what it would be like to roll the events of the bombings backward, expressing the desire to ...

The Jacob Schriftman Blog - schriftman.wordpress.com · 13 references