---(+ Holy Buffalo +)---
There's lots of space to roam..
» back to ---(+ Holy Buffalo +)---
IkonTalk
|
Profile
|
Lost Password
|
Active Users
|
Members
|
Avatars
|
Help
|
Search
» Welcome Guest:
log in
---(+ Holy Buffalo +)---
Arts
Editing post in
Topic: Harrison Bergeron
Username
Are you registered?
Password
Forgotten your password?
Post
HTML is
off
for this forum
IkonCode is
on
for this forum
Emoticons are enabled
Andale Mono
Arial
Arial Black
Book Antiqua
Century Gothic
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Georgia
Impact
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Script MT Bold
Stencil
Verdana
Lucida Console
-2
-1
1
2
3
4
5
6
White
Black
Red
Yellow
Pink
Green
Orange
Purple
Blue
Beige
Brown
Teal
Navy
Maroon
LimeGreen
Um, "novella" might be the term that you guys are looking for, although "Harrison Bergeron" is definitely a short story. For whatever reason, it's on the reading list for a lot of Grade 9 curricula: we had to read it as well. Vonnegut is more or less my second favourite novelist after Henry Miller. I started reading his stuff when I was thirteen or so, and haven't looked back. "The Sirens Of Titan" is my favourite Vonnegut book. It just seemed to sum up all of my feelings about people, the world, etc., at the time. Other good ones: "Mother Night" (there was a pretty decent movie adaption starring Nick Nolte), "Breakfast Of Champions" (there was a bloody awful movie adaption starring Bruce Willis), "Timequake", "Wampeters, Foma, & Grandfalloons". His short story material is somewhat hit and miss. The earlier stuff was more or less quick fodder for the dozens of fiction magazines that were hugely popular in the USA in the '50s. Vonnegut himself has admitted that it's not his best work, and that he was more or less just churning it out to make a living. There are a few decent ones, though. I've been meaning to write him a letter for the past seven years, and have yet to do so. I'm terrified that he will die before I write to him, yet conversely, I'm terrified that if I do write to him, he'll die as soon as I mail the letter, as if some strange universal force was telling me, "See? You should've written him earlier." Maybe I should just write to Kilgore Trout. Yeah...;)
Post Options
Do you wish to add your signature?
Do you wish to
enable
emoticons in this post?
Do you wish to preview before posting?
Yes
No
Administration Options
Delete this post? Administration/Forum Moderator only
© 2001 - May 2006 holybuffalo.com, Aug 2006 - Present holybuffalo.net |
Our Privacy Statement
Powered by
Ikonboard 2.1.9 Beta
© 2001 Ikonboard.com