Ah, here’s an old high school standby. I believe this short story ended up in most 10th Grade textbooks in the U.S., and for good reason. It’s a stone cold classic that everyone needs to read at least once. I suspect it was the first Vonnegut for many, many young people.
That’s right, I don’t have anything snarky to say about this story. It’s just that good.
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Read that story for the first time at book camp.
we didn’t actually read this one in class, but it was in the textbook…I read it one day because I was bored….
They’re doing a movie based on it, again. *shudder* I should have hope that it may be worth watching. HAW.
The first one was, I saw that then was disapointed when I read the short story.
I love it! Been looking forward to this one for quite a while.
On a related note, Batman can make anything funny: http://www.shortpacked.com/2005/comic/book-1-brings-back-the-80s/02-one-upmanship/a-25/
My recollection is that we had a Vonnegut short story in 12th grade – not this one. My first Vonnegut was the novel Player Piano.
sorry that should be Player Piano.
I remember reading this my junior year! I always wanted to write an alternate universe fanfic where everything turns out okay.
Thank you for doing a comic on it!
Viva le revolution! Down with the handicappers! All hail the new emperor!
Just need to prevent people from turning into dicks against the handicapped.
Huh – this one must of missed my textbook.
Then again, we don’t get English textbooks
We did this one, alongside Sound of Thunder I believe. Our book had background pictures of the weights and a mask, though it was more rust-colored geometric shapes than Shyguy. Thinking about it, I suppose about half the world would look like the people in Mirror Mask.
I never actually read this in high school, but I did read it in the dystopia anthology “Brave New Worlds”