Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors. I recently finished Galápagos. It was great--not his best--but really funny.

[quote=Michael MacFarlane]Incidentally, if you read any two Vonnegut novels, it's important for you to read Mother Night and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Certainly not his most famous works, but possibly his best.[/quote]I will definitely check those out. I'd like to eventually read all of his books, but he has so many (which is a good thing).

yes but 90% of them are infinitely better than starship troopers.

So his early stuff is actually worth reading then? I thought Heinlein's early stage was mostly pulp fiction written for the boys' adventure fiction magazines of the 50s.

they're fun to read through on an afternoon. a few of them suck hard, but not many.

i especially liked Farmer in the Sky, about a colony on one of Jupiter's moons.

Wow Tiberium, I don't think I've been quoted that much in the history of Massassi!

You must have missed all the political commentary. The book is incredible, if you look just a little below the surface. Most of his stuff is like that. Stranger in a Strange Land, Job - it's dumb and farcical on the surface. But it flows deep.