So far, as of page 22, this is my choice for funniest book ever

Quote :

"He wrote a novel, for instance, about an Earthling named Delmore Skag, a bachelor in a neighborhood where everybody else had enormous families. And Skag was a scientist, and he found a way to reproduce himself in chicken soup. He would shave living cells from the palm of his right hand, mix them with the soup, and expose the soup to cosmic rays. The cells turned into babies which looked exactly like Delmore Skag ... Skag hoped to force his country into making laws against excessively large families, but the legislatures and the courts declined to meet the problem head-on. They passed stern laws instead against the posession by unmarried persons of chicken soup. And so on."

not to mention the illustrations. friggin great.

12/21/2005 12:50:02 PM

Never read that one but I did do a huuuuuge report on Vonnegut when I was in high school. Slaughterhouse Five was awesome.

12/21/2005 12:57:29 PM

I can never remember which one it was, but which book had the post-apocalyptic future where the guy walks around in a robe and is king of new york or something? and it has the plague that killed most people but the plague turns out to be something really funny (not gonna give away the funny part).

12/21/2005 1:01:19 PM

^Slapstick

12/21/2005 1:52:44 PM

Never read a Vonnegut book I didn't like. I think Breakfast of Champions and Bluebeard are my favorites, though.

12/21/2005 2:00:33 PM