Comments on: Book Review: Slaughterhouse-Five http://chadhogg.name/~chad/wordpress/?p=488 A delicious concoction of commentary, essays, reviews, memoires, etc. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:25:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michaluk http://chadhogg.name/~chad/wordpress/?p=488&cpage=1#comment-12165 Michaluk Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:04:21 +0000 http://chadhogg.name/~chad/wordpress/?p=488#comment-12165 Sweet, thanks. It's curious that I've never noticed 'armor', 'color', 'favorite' or the like as incorrect until now. Maybe the language got reset in an update or something. I guess it doesn't make sense for the check to be on the receiving side, since it would have to know what I'm typing before I hit the submit button. Vonnegut's books are very short. I think most are around 200 pages, with Player Piano etc. a little longer, but it's been a while since I've read them and I might be wrong. I hope your experience with Slaughterhouse Five didn't sour you to reading more Vonnegut. He's one of my favorite authors. Sweet, thanks. It’s curious that I’ve never noticed ‘armor’, ‘color’, ‘favorite’ or the like as incorrect until now. Maybe the language got reset in an update or something. I guess it doesn’t make sense for the check to be on the receiving side, since it would have to know what I’m typing before I hit the submit button.

Vonnegut’s books are very short. I think most are around 200 pages, with Player Piano etc. a little longer, but it’s been a while since I’ve read them and I might be wrong. I hope your experience with Slaughterhouse Five didn’t sour you to reading more Vonnegut. He’s one of my favorite authors.

]]> By: chadhogg http://chadhogg.name/~chad/wordpress/?p=488&cpage=1#comment-12163 chadhogg Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:44:54 +0000 http://chadhogg.name/~chad/wordpress/?p=488#comment-12163 The automatic spell-checking function is not a feature of WordPress; it is a feature of your browser. Assuming you are using Firefox, open the context menu in any text box and select Languages / en_US. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of his longer works? I found it surprisingly short. The automatic spell-checking function is not a feature of WordPress; it is a feature of your browser. Assuming you are using Firefox, open the context menu in any text box and select Languages / en_US. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of his longer works? I found it surprisingly short.

]]> By: Michaluk http://chadhogg.name/~chad/wordpress/?p=488&cpage=1#comment-12145 Michaluk Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:39:47 +0000 http://chadhogg.name/~chad/wordpress/?p=488#comment-12145 Most of stories in Vonnegut's books happen in the same universe and are significantly intertwined. These tend to be his shorter books. Some of the longer ones, such as Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano and Cat's Cradle are only tangentially related to the bulk of his work. I found the 'independent' books to be less enjoyable than the shorter, related ones, and of those three that I mentioned Slaughterhouse Five was my least favorite. I suggest you read Breakfast of Champions and go from there. As a side note, the automatic spell-checking function told me I spelled 'favorite' incorrectly. It suggested I spell it as 'favourite'. Welcome to America, WordPress. As a second side note, WordPress flags it's own name as a spelling error. Poor. Most of stories in Vonnegut’s books happen in the same universe and are significantly intertwined. These tend to be his shorter books. Some of the longer ones, such as Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano and Cat’s Cradle are only tangentially related to the bulk of his work. I found the ‘independent’ books to be less enjoyable than the shorter, related ones, and of those three that I mentioned Slaughterhouse Five was my least favorite.

I suggest you read Breakfast of Champions and go from there.

As a side note, the automatic spell-checking function told me I spelled ‘favorite’ incorrectly. It suggested I spell it as ‘favourite’. Welcome to America, WordPress.

As a second side note, WordPress flags it’s own name as a spelling error. Poor.

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