Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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Cat’s Cradle is the fifth book I have read by Kurt Vonnegut. You’ll never believe it, but as a white, cis-gender man in college, I really got into Slaughterhouse-Five. After that, Vonnegut went into my rotation of authors I would look out for any time I went into a used bookstore. Since Vonnegut books are a finite resource, I try to restrict myself to one book every few years. Since then, I have read Breakfast of Champions, Armageddon in Retrospect, and Slapstick. I enjoyed them […]

Kurt Vonnegut (1)

God Bless you, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

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“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.” This is another reread for me, and one that grew in my estimation quite a bit I think. I might be unable to read all mass market paperbacks anymore as my age, my eyesight, and patience (and attention span) wanes, so my first read through was cursed I think. It makes me realize I need […]

Kurt Vonnegut (1), Aristophanes (1), Pye-young Pyun (1), Gu Byeong-mo (1)

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo

The Hole by Pye-young Pyun

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A Man without a Country “As a kid, I was the youngest member of my family, and the youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into adult conversation.” This is one of the last things that Kurt Vonnegut published in his lifetime. He’s also the kind of writer who wrote so many things about so many different topics, that his writing was a well that got dipped into long after he died, so […]

I want to love Vonnegut but its just not hitting for me

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

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I never took an American lit class in college, so I am still attempting to fill the holes with some of the seminal authors that I missed, Kurt Vonnegut being one. I read Slaughterhouse Five years ago and mostly what I remember is it being weird- which prepared me for Breakfast of Champions. The novel follows two main characters, Dwayne Hoover, a successful car salesman in Midland City, Ohio, and Kilgore Trout, a fictional author that shows up in several Vonnegut novels. Hoover is inching […]

Timequake

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

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We’ve had a bunch of timeloop movies and stories by this time, but they always end up more or less doing the same thing. Working toward fixing the problem of the timeloop, which is almost always one single day. Even the game Deathloop, which I loved, did more or less the same thing. In this novel though the timeloop is a solid ten years, and more so, no one is allowed to do anything different, and the only thing that changes is what people are […]

Hell and Gone

Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

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Had mixed feelings on this one, though I ultimately liked it and found it compelling and readable. And I say that as someone who doesn’t care for serial killer stories, fiction or not. The good: Sherman knows how to weave a yarn. He keeps this smooth, while integrating the many historic events happening around the Cape Cod murder case (the moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the Tate-LaBianca murders, good Lord, the 60s were quite the time to be alive). All of this while two world famous writers […]



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