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kleinbl00  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List yer favorite "Great Books" Hubski.

- Confederacy of Dunces has been on my list for a while. Gracias.

- Owen Meany I've heard I need to read.

- I named my daughter Arya.

- Not all Vonnegut. Bluebeard was pretty rough.

- My dad really digs GEB. Which has always annoyed me. I need to let that go.





briandmyers  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

GEB is something I would reluctantly recommend. There are gems in there, for sure, but I probably should re-read and re-evaluate, because I felt like a lot of the second half was BS. But that could entirely be on me.

I have not read Bluebeard. Rough in what sense?

JakobVirgil  ·  3918 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bluebeard is possibly Vonnegut's best book and my favorite 'history' of the american abstract expressionist movement.

kleinbl00  ·  3919 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"rough" in that the plot was pretty much irrelevant and you didn't really give a damn. It was one of his later books. he was slowing down.