Top 50 Greatest Things: #48

My top 50 greatest things

Number 48: Kurt Vonnegut

Here is our first person. When a person pops up, I'm mainly concerned with their body of work as opposed to the actual person. I actually don't know much about Vonnegut outside of a handful of his novels that really resonated with me. I first read Breakfast of Champions either in high school or right after and the main thing that struck me was the simple syntax that is used. It dumbed a lot of things downs like the discovery of America and mental illness to the point of meaninglessness that I found very striking. I've read Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five. I can't really decide which would be my favorite since it's been a while but I guess Slaughterhouse. I should revisit these and read the rest of his work maybe. But most of those gave me some feeling or lead me to some thoughts that I can't quite compare to anything else. I perhaps don't agree with all of his ideas but what an author.

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