I read some books by Kurt Vonnegut in college and liked them alot, too. My favorite part about him was that he created another author named "Kilgore Trout" inside some of his books. This Trout always had ideas for books even crazier than Vonnegut himself. He really published one book called "Venus on the Halfshell" under Kilgore Trout's name, when he probably could have sold a lot more copies if he had just said it was a Kurt Vonnegut book. Slaughterhouse Five was good too, and the hero had the same last name as me. Sorry to go off into literature in a thread that doesn't really have anything to do with science fiction but you brought it up in the first place.
