Music Babble

If it weren't for her unbearable political schlock, The Fountainhead would be a moderately interesting read. It isn't poorly plotted or styled, just obnoxious politically.

All this could have been avoided if they'd picked Cat's Cradle instead.

I've found the idea that Vonnegut is "for kids" itself a wince-inducing thing; Vonnegut didn't have a hit book until he was 41 years old and by then he was already into middle-aged, we're-all-gonna-kill-ourselves misery that strikes me as something unusual for "kids" to be into, unless they're posing. Which hey, maybe they are. But Slaughterhouse-Five is painful stuff much of the time, zipping between WWII slaughter and dumb "humorous" bits about the hero's interaction with a porn star or those aliens and in a way that doesn't "work" at all, IMO.