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thbobby

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1. I love Kurt Vonnegut
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:05 AM
Jan 2018

Slaughter House Five is a great novel. I used to read novels with my kids to encourage them to like literature. So, I got another of his books, Willard and His Bowling Trophies. Sometimes a book's title will genuinely reflect the book. This was horrible. And it was about a guy named Willard and his bowling trophies. We still laugh about it.

Another book I never got was Magister Ludi by Herman Hesse. My kids and I loved Hesse. And this book got great revues. But I could not get through it. Read some 300 pages. All I remember is Glass Bead Game being repeated over and over.

Magister Ludi probably is a good book and I just did not get it. But Willard and His Bowling Trophies is as bad as the title suggests and should probably have never been published.

Is Heather Graham the same Heather Graham the actress? If so, all her movies seemed really bad to me and I cannot imagine her being a good novelist.

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Books that are too stupid to have been published. [View all] PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2018 OP
I love Kurt Vonnegut thbobby Jan 2018 #1
The Heather Graham of the title is PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2018 #2
I don't think so PennyK Feb 2018 #3
You are correct thbobby Feb 2018 #4
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