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    Jan 14, 2008, 12:45 PM
    Kurt Vonnegut Book
    What Kurt Vonnegut book should I read first if I have never read anything by him?
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    Jan 14, 2008, 12:54 PM
    He is a wonderful author and you'll want to read many of his books once you've read one. Slaughter House Five is a good one to start with. They made a good movie out of the book also back in the 1970's.
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    Jan 14, 2008, 12:58 PM
    Most would say his most famous book is "Slaughterhouse Five." That book is widely considered one of the best American novels of the 20th Century.
    One of his novels, "Breakfast of Champions" was also a best selling novel for him. He also wrote, "Welcome to the Monkey House", "God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian", and many others.

    inauthor:Kurt inauthor:Vonnegut - Google Book Search

    To give you a suggestion as to where you want to start, try looking at a synopsis of each of his works and see if you what grabs your interest.

    Personally, I preferred "A Man Without A Country."
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    Jan 14, 2008, 01:04 PM
    Thanks, I will check a few of these out.
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    Jan 14, 2008, 08:26 PM
    I think you should read Cat's Cradle first. And then everything else he ever wrote.
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    Jan 14, 2008, 08:29 PM
    I would go with "Slaughterhouse Five" first.
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    Sep 25, 2009, 08:49 PM

    Give me a name of novel author..
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    Sep 27, 2009, 08:25 AM

    I'm so glad I stumbled upon this thread cause I've been wondering about this myself... yeah, just wanted to say that!
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    Oct 29, 2009, 07:40 PM

    I'll never forget the line from "Breakfast of Champions" about how this man's wife killed herself by drinking Draino and how it "...did much the same to her that it did to a clogged drain..."
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    Oct 30, 2009, 12:00 AM

    "Slaughterhouse Five" is my semi-professional recommendation.
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    Oct 30, 2009, 06:28 PM
    I always thought Welcome to the Monkey House was the best way to get into Vonnegut. It's short enough not to overpower you and still shows the wonderfully wacky mind of Kilgore Trout (his other pseudonym).

    For a full length work, try "The Sirens of Titan."
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