#kurt vonnegut slapstick

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Slapstick Kurt Vonnegut This is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

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Any book recommendations?

[malaisequotes]

“I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please—a little less love, and a little more common decency.’”

Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut

[laziestgirlintown]

Did you know that this is a bit like Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More!?

- In terms of this poll, if you're a bumblebee, you're my family

In the novel, all people appointed (for instance) bumblebee will always have a bumblebee family.

Like all utopias, turns out it isn't quite utopian

(per an old Slapstick family generator, back when internet internetted and search engines found, I'm: Muskellunge-11. Just in case there are any relatives out there)

I need to run a survey really quick. This isn't serious, but I need people to cooperate and not cheat for the sake of it because it'll skew the results.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and you realize you (and everyone else in the world) can turn into an animal (And back into a human) at will.

Please go to this link to see what animal it will be for you:

(this is random, and yes, you only get one, no redos)

With this in mind, please reply to the following questions as truthfully as possible based on your current situation. (Not an ideal fantasy one.)

[eggleon]

i like Vonnegut's books but a lot of the covers are bad to me. i draw my own

[pothosgrowing]

Kurt Vonnegut was so real for this

like yeah it’s so hard to not say “love you too” when someone says “I love you” and as someone who’s aromantic I always feel weird/bad saying it because for me it’s a lie :( but I always feel obligated to because it’s what is expected of me

[sordidamok]

I read a lot of Vonnegut as a teen. I wouldn't say Vonnegut gave me new beliefs, but he certainly confirmed things I believed and gave me new insights. He helped me solidify my feminism, anti-war, and socialist beliefs.

Some of what I read in Vonnegut was "disturbing". It was supposed to be.

From the article:

Should we worry, as massive book-banning efforts imply, that young people will be harmed by certain kinds of books? For over a decade and through hundreds of interviews, my colleague, literacy professor Peter Johnston, and I have studied how adolescents experience reading when they have unfettered access to young adult literature. Our findings suggest that many are helped rather than harmed by such reading. For one study, we spent a year in a public middle school in a small, mid-Atlantic town, observing and talking to eighth grade students whose teachers, rather than assigning the “classics” or traditional academic texts, let students choose what to read and gave them time to read daily in class. To support student engagement, they made available hundreds of contemporary books that are relevant to the students’ lives. The books included many of the titles currently being challenged, according to PEN America, which is a nonprofit that advocates against censorship, among other things. The titles include Ellen Hopkins’ “Identical,” Jay Asher’s “Thirteen Reasons Why,” Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” and others that were banned because of themes of sex and violence. We were interested in what the students perceived to be the consequences of reading young adult literature. They tended to read books they described as “disturbing.” At the end of the school year, we interviewed 71 of the students about changes in their reading and relationships with peers and family. We also asked open-ended questions about how, if at all, they had changed as people since the beginning of the year. Beyond reading substantially more than they had previously, they reported positive changes in their social, emotional and intellectual lives that they attributed to reading, the kinds of books they read and the conversations those books provoked. Here are six ways students told us they had been changed by reading and talking about edgy young adult books.

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9ish Books for 2025

Tagged by @bugdotpng, thank you!!! 🥺

Not sure if my bestie @mosscosmos reads but I'm tagging you anyway. I have very few followers but if you do it please tag me!

I haven't been reading much at all the past few years I think I read one book last year, I've started and am part way through many. Explanations under the cut this got long oops

Officially my goal for 2025 is these 3 books

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, part way through it taking my damn ass time reading it

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, kind of an inside joke relating to the horrors of last year, I've never read it

Entangled life by Merlin Sheldrake, this book came up a lot under "books that change your life/world view" plus I fuck heavily with fungi. I started it and hopefully 2025 is the year I finish

Remainder of the 9ish books

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, this was gifted to me ages ago. Someone on my dash was reading it recently and really seemed to enjoy so I'd love to take a crack at it

Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, I'm a big Vonnegut fan and I haven't read this one yet

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, this was recommended to me by someone at work although everything else he's recommended to me has been big dookie so I hope this book is an exception

La nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre (in french), I'm a big Sartre fan don't remember why I wanted to read this in particular probably saw a quote I liked

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, when I watched the show I didn't know it was based on a book, loved the show and then found out that people hated the show and the book was Way Better. So I'm super excited to read this !!

Cosmos by Carl Sagan, have a bit of an on going astronomy obsession the past couple years, I like star gazing it makes me feel connected to humanity, this book probably came up in relation to that

The Southern Reach Trilogy, I read Annihilation a few years ago in college and loved loved loved it. Tore through it, took the second book out from the library and thought "this is nothing like the first one I hate this" and then never bothered with it again. Bug and a couple other folks on my dash are making me want to give it a second chance!

Honourable mentions to:

The celluloid closet by Vito Russo (homosexuality in the movies), started reading this, wicked interesting and also super depressing, haven't finished it yet

The goldfinch by donna tart, i was intimidated by its size until I had a lovely chat with someone I follow who was reading it, encouraged me to give it a shot

The Thursday murder club by Richard osman, I gifted this to my mom and she loves the series so I want to give it a read, I've started it not sure when I'll finish

L'��tranger by Jean-Paul Sartre (in french), I've read this a couple times; I like to re-read this in the summer during heatwaves

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Old Boyfriends (1979) by Joan Tewkesbury

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Midnight Express (1977) by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer

A Book of Common Prayer (1977) by Joan Didion

Going Crazy: An Inquiry into Madness in Our Time (1976) by Otto Friedrich

Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971) by Calvin Tomkins

Heavily Tattooed Men and Women (1976) by Spider Webb

Maya Plisetskaya (1976)

Secret Passages and Hiding Places (1974) by Jeremy Errand

Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1962) by W. H. Auden

Slapstick (1976) by Kurt Vonnegut

Colette: A Taste for Life (1977) by Yvonne Mitchell

The Laszlo Letters (1977) by Don Novello

Cheap Chic (1975) by Carol Troy and Caterine Milinaire

[wulfhalls]

any good book recs, queen?

imma just throw out everything I've read this year so far it hasn't been that much but there were some all time favs in there. wait no not everything fuck the name of the rose fuck that book so hard don't read it EVER i was engaged in a prolonged fight to the death with it and the victory was not worth the price i paid. anyways. WOLF HALL TRILOGY!!!!!!!!! LIFE CHANGING READING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!! BEST BOOK(S) IVE EVER READ NO JOKE NO EXAGGERATION NO HYPERBOLE!!!!! william faulkner - absalom absalom, as I lay dying, light in august, alice hoffman - the dovekeepers, john steinbeck- east of eden, jane austen - persuasion, john williams - butcher's crossing, brooke bolander - the only harmless great thing, ernest hemingway - the old man and the sea, virginia woolf - to the lighthouse, mrs dalloway, kazuo ishiguro - when we were orphans, a pale view of hills, gabriel garcia marquez- a chronicle of a death foretold, kurt vonnegut - slapstick or lonesome no more. also DUNE because everyone should read DUNE and I never let an opportunity pass me by to recommend DUNE

[thegayjoker]

hello siobhan… i was totally wondering if u knew of any books that are similar to parting glances.. most beautiful movie in the worldddd

HELLO!!! i’m sorry for how long it’s taken for me to answer it has genuinely been so difficult to think of some… i’d say my taste in books and my taste in movies is pretty different so i haven’t read a lot of books with a similar vibe to parting glances…

the two that came to mind first are angels in america by tony kushner and close to the knives by david wojnarowicz which are both set in nyc in the 80s and center around the aids crisis. angels in america has the poetic, slightly mystical atmosphere of parting glances, while the narration of close to the knives reminds me a lot of nick with its cynicism and urgency.

besides that, slapstick by kurt vonnegut touches on similar themes of the passage of time and how relationships change with a mix of odd humor and tragedy reminiscent of parting glances - though the two aren’t similar in plot at all.

sorry i don’t have very good answers </3 i understand your desire as i will also never get over how perfect that movie is

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tagged by: @wldestluv-rs <333

last song: when ya get drafted by dead kennedys [♫] fave color: dark emerald green currently watching: barry <3 last movie: a simple plan! shout out caroline kwan movie nights currently reading: slapstick by kurt vonnegut and rereading their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston for school sweet/spicy/savoury: ALL! it depends on my mood last thing i googled: billy bob thornton! i wanted to see if he was in any other movies or shows recently current obsession: house flipper, bg3, and bear and breakfast <3 any game that isnt the sims unfortunately currently working on: nothing sims related :( i have like 7 tests and 2 essays due in the next 3 weeks

tagging (absolutely no pressure <3): @wildmelon @avornalino @birdietrait @afrolatinotrait and anyone else who sees this :)

[ombre-ame]

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'.

Kurt Vonnegut , Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

@ombre-ame

Feb 25/24

[waterloggeddaughter]

On a list of things that ostracized me from my peers in high school reading slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut is up there cuz nobody in mormon private school wants you to tell them about these two giant freaky monsters havin weird incestuous sex