Category: Reading List

  • Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade (1969)

    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. There was a fire-storm out there. Dresden was one big flame. The one flame ate everything organic, everything that would burn. Quite possibly a top-five book of the 20th century, Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children’s Crusade is one of the greatest gifts given to the human experience. I imagine many…

  • Animal Farm (1945)

    by George Orwell It is a book about the Russian Revolution. It is also a book about anthropomorphic farm animals who rise up against their human subjugators and subsequently, those farm animals who rise up against their own. In this case, the pigs win out, break every promise they ever made, and gaslight the fuck…

  • Cat’s Cradle (1963)

    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. “How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” Thus, my journey into the writings of Kurt Vonnegut began with this book. I had only ever heard about this book through sorts of fringe discussions or mentions; I knew virtually nothing about it other than the title and author. I…