If the Hitch Hiker's Guide taught me how to read, then Slaughterhouse 5 taught me what to read. In it one of the characters says, Everything you need to know about life can be found in The Brothers Karamazov; I tried it, he was right.

Vonnegut's interest in Dostoevsky still shows itself in a recent piece of his I've just stumbled across.

Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade.

(taken from Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut via Nate)