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by mattbierner 2751 days ago
Timequake is also a great one if you've enjoyed his other work

  I taught how to be sociable with ink on paper. I told
  my students that when they were writing they should be
  good dates on blind dates, should show strangers good
  times. Alternatively, they should run really nice
  whorehouses, come one, come all, although they were in
  fact working in perfect solitude. I said I expected
  them to do this with nothing but idiosyncratic
  arrangements in horizontal lines of twenty-six phonetic
  symbols, ten numbers, and maybe eight punctuation
  marks, because it wasn't anything that hadn't been done
  before.

  — Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
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Timequake is one of my favourites too, but really every Vonnegut book I have read is a treat.

Sure the Bible might be the greatest story ever told, but the most popular story is about a couple who has a good time fornicating, but then stops for one reason or another while it is still a novelty.