The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonneguys published on 2016-10-31T00:59:52Z (00:00) The Sirens of Titan (07:00) Plot Time! (50:30) Recurring Characters (56:30) VonneWHAT? (1:04:00) Kurt Blurt (1:13:00) Related Reading (1:28:30) Movie Time (1:44:00) Kurt News Related Reading: Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: https://goo.gl/Tuo0UJ V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore & David Lloyd: https://goo.gl/yYGwhM Speaker for the Dead -- Orson Scott Card: https://goo.gl/QUiIA5 Dark They Were and Golden Eyed -- Ray Bradbury: https://goo.gl/xFKAeA Mozart in Mirrorshades -- Bruce Sterling & Lewis Shiner: https://goo.gl/BCNgfs The Stranger -- Albert Camus: https://goo.gl/ppBtSI Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein: https://goo.gl/S1vr3K Genre Comedy Comment by Cian O'Donoghue great show about a really special book 2021-03-09T20:32:41Z Comment by Frank Kool This reminds me so much of the novels by Chuck Palahniuk (especially 'Fight Club' and 'Survivor'. You guys could probably do a kick-ass podcast about Palahniuk as well. 2017-07-18T12:03:59Z Comment by carole_541 It's also my all-time favorite book! 2017-05-28T04:17:08Z Comment by starlight1988 Amazon Rain Forests are not in Africa, they are in Brazil, South America... 2017-04-13T00:28:07Z Comment by DekuMasdaSquee this was the first book I chose myself and wasn't forced to read as a child. until this book I never wanted to read, it was a chore. but my god, this book sparked a fire in me and I'll never forget it. didn't know until this pod cast I had the first edition but my house flooded and I lost it. at least I got to read it. 2017-02-23T19:41:42Z Comment by Beth Shope This point is brought up again toward the end when we see all of the statues that Salo made based off of the people he watched. These people essentially performed for a god they thought was watching them until the church came along and told them that god was utterly indifferent to their entire existance. I found this strange because Salo WAS watching them. He was entertained by them. He became endeared to all of humanity. A humanity that the book argues, would not exist without Salo. Is Salo god? If so, you could argue that he is not at all indifferent. 2016-12-21T15:13:34Z Comment by Beth Shope The harmoniums' only form of communication was a sort of greeting to one another: "They have weak powers of telepathy. The messages they are capable of transmitting and receiving are almost as monotonous as the song of Mercury.... "Here I am, here I am, here I am." "So glad you are."" You observed that the entire point of human existance was to send a greeting; it may just be the entire point of existance. 2016-12-21T14:53:58Z Comment by the-Diceman As a rape victim, who accepts life as... whatever, I can honestly say I'd never thank my rapist. 2016-12-16T05:04:14Z Comment by Grace McNutt The Stranger was exactly what I was thinking about while reading Sirens too. I am thankful I read the Stranger in high school with a teacher who was really passionate about it. Great novella. 2016-12-06T14:56:57Z Comment by Sorcha Morency Have youever kind of fall in love with somebody, but it's really just because you love yourself and they've done or said something that just echos in that core of what you think makes you special? Mike Swain I'm in that kind of love with you. Only an absolute monster recommends The Stranger tbh. 2016-11-16T13:56:10Z Comment by Várady Csongor We want more Kurt Vonneguys! 2016-11-14T09:04:43Z Comment by darkalter2000 On the idea that the future Winston creates is so great all I can say is, citation needed. He could only "see the future" up to the point in the future he was around for. Meaning there is no guarantee that the religion is anymore 'spiritually satisfying' in the long run than any other religion. 2016-11-12T05:07:33Z Comment by Michael Richard Ingram why do you say malaKEY not malaCAY????????? 2016-11-10T00:38:38Z Comment by Jason Langheine Purpose 2016-11-07T23:37:09Z Comment by Jason Langheine Why do you guys seem to have this axiom that criticizing religion is bad? What if religion is bad? Shouldn't we want to know that and say so? 2016-11-07T23:34:26Z Comment by Jason Langheine He's just humanist. 2016-11-07T23:29:37Z Comment by Millhaus my pick would be Ed harris 2016-11-03T02:51:57Z Comment by zambieboy He is in a chronosynclastic infundibulum 2016-11-03T00:24:38Z Comment by Jared Norman Widman dream cast of the sirens of titan movie: Jon Hamm as Malachi Constant and Michael Fassbender as Winston Niles Rumfoord. Boom 2016-11-02T18:46:16Z Comment by Ping Anthony Will you guys ever read comments from here? 2016-11-02T15:44:46Z Comment by Ping Anthony someone who writes for Doctor Who must have also read this book re The Silence making humans develop space travel to make a space suit for them 2016-11-02T13:29:14Z Comment by Broken Root Dylan has since acknowledged and graciously accept the nod. 2016-11-02T12:28:36Z Comment by The Underwerewolves Yeah, Kurt doesn't seem anti-religion, so much as he's interested in what parts of religion are useful and valuable and what parts are negative (like the parts that make people say "someone up there likes me"). 2016-11-01T20:19:32Z Comment by The Underwerewolves Cannibalism has been a real thing in several places around the world, including the Amazon, reportedly... I mean, the cannibals he described may have been a mish-mosh of stereotypes about indigenous cultures (it's been a while since I read this book, so I'm not sure if they are or not), but I'm sure Vonnegut was pretty knowledgeable about something like that, for his time, since he was studying Anthropology in grad school. 2016-11-01T20:11:13Z Comment by The Underwerewolves Nothing in "The Sirens of Titan" is as depressing as the "Whiplash" idea that one would consider all manners of cruelty to be justified in order to enable something as trivial and uninspiring as jazz music. "If I get really good at this, I could impact the lives of, maybe, like 6 people." "For the better?" "Not sure." 2016-11-01T15:37:00Z Comment by Vonnegutist27 He called himself a Christ-worshiping agnostic once, and was involved with Unitarianism. So I see his dismissal of religion as underlining the absurdity of mysticism rather than a hard-line atheist rejection of any kind of god. 2016-11-01T04:13:42Z Comment by Vonnegutist27 Mercury is tidally locked, but not perfectly, so there are 2 solar days on Mercury for every Mercurian year which works out to about 22 days of sunlight on a given spot followed by 22 days of darkness. 2016-11-01T03:13:58Z Comment by The Underwerewolves What is this theme music? I love it! 2016-10-31T21:20:26Z Comment by gundisalv I haven't read this book, but I've fallen so in love with it and the way you guys have worked it, that I have to read it, now. thank you. please, don't stop producing for this station. 2016-10-31T19:22:09Z
