Great podcast last night with @jedimasterchief. Can’t say enough how much I loved this book. You can download the Podcast here. Or find it on iTunes by searching LOSTblog.
Stay tuned (later today) for the start-your-engines post for September’s book, Carrie by Steven King, lead by @erinava.
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I loved LOST for the characters as much as the next guy, but I was LOST (and by that I mean a higher form of LOVE) for LOST when Desmond’s character started taking some strange trips through time. When the series came to an end I’ll admit that I was confused to the relevance to those trips. I was confused until I read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
I enjoyed reading Watership Down and Lord of the Flies and I enjoyed discussing their parallels with LOST, but Slaughterhouse Five went beyond parallels and into a total enhancement of my LOST enjoyment. This has been a MUST read book, and I’m really looking forward to the podcast discussion with @jedimasterchief. We’re prepping some talking points, but I’d love to hear from you all everybody.
Podcast date and time has been set for Tuesday, August 31st at 10PM central at talkshoe. Follow @LOST_Bookclub for the URL and phone in tweet if you’d like to join in on the conversation, or chat along with us.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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First off, you should know Kurt Vonnegut NEVER gave that MIT commencement speech [“Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 1997: Wear Sunscreen”] that floated all over the Internet. He didn’t WRITE it either. However, his wife thought it was so hilarious (because it sounded so much like him), she forwarded it to all their friends.
Because his voice was that distinctive. He was the 20th century equivalent of Mark Twain.
As a novelist, he’s been described as absurdist, irreverent, and a master of sci-fi, satire and black comedy. He didn’t like religion. He didn’t like technology. He REALLY didn’t like George W. Bush [OR John Kerry]. He was an atheist yet referenced the Beatitudes as informing his own outlook as a humanist. He was anti-war yet publicly said he’s proud he was a soldier in WWII. He was popular yet controversial, successful yet “counter-culture,” opinionated yet never preachy. He straddled fences, crossed boundaries, ruffled feathers and never compromised.
Above it all, however, Kurt Vonnegut was just a frickin’ awesome storyteller.
I’m just gonna say it: IMHO, Kurt Vonnegut was one probably one of the coolest humans to ever walk this Earth.
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Happy August WRLBers! This month’s book is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It’s another relatively short one! The reading schedule will be easy this time. We have a little over 200 pages (by my copy) spread through 10 chapters. That gives us roughly 2 and a half chapters a week.
I don’t know why I’m so much more excited about this book than the others we’ve already read. Maybe because I don’t know ANYTHING about it, not one single thing.
Also this is the LAST CALL for thoughts on July’s book, Lord of the Flies, as I will be recording the follow up cast for that tonight. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Contact methods listed below, as always!
Our lead for August will be @jedimasterchief
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