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I'm a huge Vonnegut fan, although I've only finished one book (Slaughterhouse-Five). I'm a little over mid-way through Hocus Pocus, and I simply adore it. After Hocus Pocus, one of my co-worker's, an English major in college, suggested I pick up Cat's Cradle and Galapagos. After those two, does...

Slaughterhouse-Five was the first Vonnegut novel I read, and I completely fell in love with the book and author. Billy Pilgrim's quirk of being "unstuck from time" makes the storytelling rich and spontaneous. I also really enjoyed the fact that nobody in the book (Tralfamadorians or Billy)...

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the much-acclaimed Neil Gaiman comic series, The Sandman. First of all, that series is actually the equivalent of a rated "R" movie, with violence, very strong language, nudity, etc, it's primarily for adults/teenagers. Also, the series gives insight into...

I wrote a thirteen-chapter fanfiction on Kingdom Hearts recently. My system went as folllows: -Decide what will happen. -Write the chapter itself. -Add/Delete/Edit events. -Check spelling/grammar/punctuation. -Decide the overall theme of the chapter, and name it. -(optional) Stick in a...

How could Holden die? He's telling the story in the past tense!

I finished "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving a few days ago. It was a pretty good story. I liked the ending, even if it kinda flopped it was so depressing. Don't get me wrong, the ending wasn't sad nor was it disappointing but those are the only words coming to mind.

A fellow Ohioan, eh? Greetings from rainy Southern Ohio! Ugh, first three inches of ice, now some obscure amount of rain. In any case, welcome!

Greetings and salutations, all. I was poking around Google, looking for a good book-discussion forum and popped in. Just finished "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving and am about to pick up "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I've been floating around Neil Gaiman and Kurt...

I can read as long as I'm in the cargo area of a jeep or van, or something, but not anywhere else. I put an air matress down in a truck bed once and read for six hours straight in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and didn't get sick. Anywhere else makes me real nausceous and grumpy.

I nominate Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a story about a man named Billy Pilgrim who has come "Unstuck in Time". He walks through a door in 1948 and enters a room in 1962. Living his life in separate fragments, he knows when he's going to die, when his wife will die, even when the...

Hmmm.... Here is what I often tell people about Gatsby: "It is a horrible book, but a wonderful story." And I stick to that. While the story, the characters, all of it feels very true to human nature, Nick Carraway's narration of it is what spoils it. His diction is completely full of...

Greetings and salutations, all. I read Catcher about a year ago, but it's still fresh in my brain. It also happens to be a personal favorite of mine. Anywho, did anybody see how Holden renounced his title of "Catcher in the Rye" at the end? I took his job as preventing children from...