What is your favorite Vonnegut book and why?

Answer 1

I've read most of Kurt Vonnegut's books and my favorites are his collection of short stories 'Welcome To The Monkey House' and the novel 'Galapagos.'

I also like 'Bluebeard,' but it's appeal to me is more because I also happen to be an artist.

I think, as a writer, Vonnegut is most effective when he is less preachy. While there is nothing basically wrong with being a little preachy it can become rather redundant when the themes become overly repeated.

But what the hell! Long live Kilgore Trout!

Answer 2

Slaughterhouse Five! more complex than Cat's Cradle, it involves extreme realism and extreme surrealism with its' time travelling and space aliens and peace and war and peculiarities of fifth dimention while remaining very folk and very human. A classic and very much lively book that can't get old; Sense of humour is different from Cat's Cradle book too, more living, more penetrating, less of a brain book and more of a feel book.

Answer 3

Player Piano.

His first, and for me, his best. Not that I am not a fan, I've enjoyed everything of his. (Note, he did not write Venus on a Half Shell, though I enjoed that as well.)

Why is it my favorite? It was the most accessible to me. It was the one piece that really moved me, and though it was many years ago, it really choked me up at the end.

Criminey, was that really over twenty five years ago?

Anyway, interesting question, I'll be back to read everyone elses answers as well.

Answer 4

Timequake

Answer 5

Breakfast of Champions.

It just takes the mickey out of everything...I like books that question what we take for granted.

Answer 6

Slaughterhouse Five was genre-changing novel.

Answer 7

Bluebeard

I won't spoil it for you... But what is in the potato barn is what the book is all about... It's wonderful!