Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
read: 2014
Guardian 1000 Novels
Vonnegut was one of the first "literature" authors I got into, reading books like Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five when I was in high school. He's a natural bridge into more serious stuff for someone like me who grew up reading science fiction almost exclusively, as his books often have sci-fi elements. He also has a conversational narrative style that's easy to read. Sirens of Titan was written in 1959, but the prose still feels fresh because it's written in the same style modern authors like Jonathan Safron Foer use today.
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