The Sirens of Titan

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”

The fact that Vonnegut is not hailed as one of the master's of the human soul is baffling.

His at first-sight chaotic and randomly woven tapestry of ideas soon proves to be nothing of the sort. No sentence in the entire book seems to have been written without a clear purpose, no event is untied to a relevant aspect of the whole plot. The experience of reading his books amounts to murmuring a series of pleasant “ahhhh”s and “ohhhh”s.

The man is simply a genius.