The Sirens of Titan

I don't have any deep thoughts on this one. As far as books go, it's a good length, funny, and I had a good time reading it. There were a classic Vonnegut lines in it, and the whole thing is as Vonnegutty as you could want a sci-fi / near-space-opera thing to be.

There's a passage where a character writes lists to himself for later reference. This is a great vehicle for Vonnegut to get some of his one- or near-one-liners out. “1. If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.” “I am a thing called alive.”

This was my favorite: “The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of the pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.” It reminded me a lot of the line in Fahrenheit 451: “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”

Two more:
“Theology: (15.) Somebody made everything for some reason.”
“Psychology: (103.) Unk, the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe that there is such a a thing as being smart.”

There is also a really nice little parable of Tralfamadore presented later on, which is simply classic Vonnegut, using a foreign entity (in this case the history of an alien species) to comment on humanity. I know we've been doing this for an awfully long time, but nobody does it quite like Vonnegut.