Author, Kurt Vonnegut?

Question: Author, Kurt Vonnegut!?

Do you have to read his books in any certain order!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I don't think so!. But if I did have to pick out an order, it would be this:

Slaughterhouse-Five
Cat's Cradle
Deadeye Dick
Breakfast of Champions
Mother Night
Hocus Pocus
Bluebeard
Sirens of Titan
Timequake
Palm Sunday
Galapagos

I haven't read Player Piano, Slapstick, or Jailbird!. But that should be a good order to get the best of his work covered!. I LOVE Cat's Cradle, but Slaughterhouse-Five is the first book I read by him so I leave that on top!. Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard are not talked about as often, but they are excellent novels!. Breakfast of Champions is off-beat, to say the least, but very funny!. Timequake is his last, great novel!. In short, I'd recommend reading close to the chronology in which he wrote them, excepting the works he feels less confident about (he gives grades to his books in Palm Sunday, so you might want to look there too)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You clearly don't HAVE to, but you will enjoy them more if you read them in the order they were written; various characters that are stars of their own sub-plots turn up in subsequent books, so you get a better picture of them and their stories by reading Vonnegut's 'main' stories in the order they were written!.

"Kilgore Trout" becomes a far more entertaining character if you read the books 'in order'!.

So it goes!.!.!.

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