I read Breakfast of Champions in first year English. It's the only thing I've read of his and I hated it, but I'm not about to assume that it's a fair sample of his work - he mentioned in the introduction that it was basically him clearing out all the characters and crap in his mind.
Will you be unbusy enough that I'll be able to see you when I come out in June?
It's hard to call any work of his representative of the whole. It works better to call it representative of a period. Breakfast of Champions (my favourite novel of his, incidentally), which was put out in the early 70s, is much more like the novels he published in the years surrounding than it is like his earlier or later novels, if you see what I mean. Player Piano, his first published novel, is my other pick for favourite, and it has no formal or stylistic relationship with Breakfast of Champions, though it is very recognizably the product of the same person. I think you'd like the latter novel more. It's much more of a traditional narrative-based science-fiction novel, lacking (or free of) the explicit postmodern tropes of his later works.
It depends. I can make time on class days, and my free days will be mostly free, but work days are mostly out (though I can still find a way if that's the only option). If you're around here for at least a week, there should be no problem.
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Will you be unbusy enough that I'll be able to see you when I come out in June?
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It depends. I can make time on class days, and my free days will be mostly free, but work days are mostly out (though I can still find a way if that's the only option). If you're around here for at least a week, there should be no problem.
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