Many people I respect are admirers of Vonnegut's work, and I'd like to read him too. I am particularly interested in his work from a political(loosely defined) perspective, rather than being especially drawn to Sci Fi as a genre.
I was thinking of starting with one of Player Piano, Slaughterhouse 5,Cat's cradle or A man without a country, but would be curious to hear what people think is a good jumping off point.
by LimpOil10
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“I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.“
Story stories, if an author has short story collections that’s where you can get a taste of their work without committing to something you may not like.
I’d start with Slaughterhouse Five. It’s the novel that made him famous. It’s a quick, easy read. And it’s really good.