I've heard so much about how dear Mr. Vonnegut is apparently so 'hilarious' and how he apparently has a very entertaining dark sense of humor. I just don't find him funny. My first issue with Vonnie's weird sense of humor is that I personally haven't noticed anything in this book so far that is funny. I can't begin to tell what's supposed to be a joke, not even when I searched the novel in class. I don't dig jokes that I have to think about, and I REALLY don't dig jokes that I can't even recognize as being jokes. My classmates have brought up various funny parts of Vonnie's writing, but I still can't recognize them as being funny until someone tells me blatantly that it's supposed to be funny. It's hard to like something you can't understand.
My second issue with his humor is that so many people like it. I tend to disagree with the majority on just about every topic there is to be debated in English class. It's just a weird quirk of mine. Most of my classmates like Shakespeare, therefore its no surprise that I strongly dislike him. Most of my friends like poetry, therefore its no surprise that I generally dislike it. When I'm surrounded by folks who enjoy Vonnie's sense of humor, it's just not my nature to conform so readily and start liking it just because my buddies say it's funny.
Everyone is entitled to their own likes and dislikes. I like failblog (when people don't get hurt), and I like certain comedians (when they're not racist, sexist, overly perverted, etc..), and I like to laugh with friends and coworkers and family members. I like jokes that aren't unkind to others, as well as jokes that I could easily say 'ba-dum, pshhhhhhhh!' to. Vonnie's humor just doesn't fit into my idea of what is funny.
(I love this blog assignment. I can so totally get away without a boring and redundant concluding paragraph =D.)
