I still feel uncomfortable with Finn overcoming (And does he really? That shadow arm at the end suggests not…) his anger at his father by punching PB. There have been a lot of hints throughout the series that Finn has a problematic connection between romance and violence (one I believe the show is planning to tackle…

So you're more of a classics guy then. That makes sense, especially given the name, haha. Plus it explains your feelings on realism a bit more. I'm very much the opposite: I keep trying my best to read older stuff (tangent: I've actually been trying to claw my way through The Brothers Karamazov for years now because…

I actually support Genji here. Vonnegut is an extremely stylized writer and so it makes sense for some people just not to like him. And it really doesn't make much sense to say "you [like/don't like] this author, so you must [agree/disagree] with everything they believe." Hell, you wouldn't automatically assume every…

[Fires off one-man 21-gun salute]

That is good but (hopefully) unnecessary to say?

Have you ever read any David Foster Wallace? There are obviously many differences between the two writers but one of the reasons that they consistently get grouped together is because a major part of both their messages (which Vonnegut puts in-brief while DFW states in-depth) are that clichés are clichés because they…

To provide textual evidence to "preaching to the choir" being kind of what Vonnegut is all about, here is a quote from Timequake where he talks about why he writes:

I love Timequake as well. It may actually be the novel of his I've reread most often. It is the perfect swan song for a writer who spent his career crafting beautiful, urgent messages to the world. I always wind up crying towards the end.