Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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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.
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His beliefs had nothing to do with my enjoyment, as I mostly agree with him, but can you explain some of the finer points of it that I may have missed. For example, I never read Bluebeard, so I missed that reference.
Also, what exactly was the point of telling everyone's penis size, and the asides that told of someone's family history to a documentary level?
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