I started
Foop last night. I picked it up because Christopher Moore and Tony Vigorito (two of my favorite authors) appeared on the jacket copy. So far, it's a pretty funny absurdist tale of a travel agent - a time travel agent - tasked with preventing villains from preventing the birth of the agent's boss. Clearly inspired by Vonnegut, pre-Katrina New Orleans plays a central role. Only got through 7 chapters last night before the sandman got me, but it's amusing enough.
Champs is my favorite KV book, btw. Don't give up on my boy yet. Slaughterhouse 5, Sirens of Titan, and Cat's Cradle are strange, but more accessible than Champs.
KV's naive narrators are brilliant, IMO. He coerces the reader to read between the lines. Rabo Karabekian - Bluebeard's narrator - busts me up.
I can appreciate that KV isn't for everyone. His humanism can slap the reader around at times, and if you're opposed to the tenets of that doctrine I'm sure it can leave a sour taste.