Leading up to October the First is Too Late, I am on an inadvertant time-travel kick. Over Thanksgiving, the Wilde clan had a multi-generational movienight, watching Back to the Future.But I just finished Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It also has time travel as a major plot element, though it is used to juxtapose events for satire. And the "time travel" is probably actually just one character's delusion.
In high school, I read Player Piano by Vonnegut. Our teacher assigned PP to give us exposure to an author's first novel (to demonstrate the room for improvement?). That was my only previous Vonnegut exposure, so I thought it worthwhile to try his most well-known work. S5 is humorous, but it didn't stir me - in this way it reminded me of The Crying of Lot Forty-Nine, which is nearly contemporaneous.
How funny....I didn't read this posting until after I'd posted mine. Try Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. He's just plain wacky!
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