Always good things but not the best collection

I have loved Vonnegut's novels: Slaughterhouse V, Sirens of Titan, And Cats cradle especially, but reading his short works show a completely different side of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. While some of them are less content driven the his novels, as you would expect from short stories, I was amazed at how versatile is- from his more traditional Harrison Bergeron to the poetic and beautiful love story A Long Walk to Forever to the short satiric critique of Dictionaries, New Dictionary. Of course I am leaving out plenty which are equally versatile and notable. This is a great read, really helped to understand the depth and amazing capacity of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I don't normally love short story compilations, but this one was certainly an exception. I really enjoyed the mix between science fiction stories and the hyper-realistic plots pieced together in this book. Vonnegut once again shows his talent, versatility, and distinct voice in this work - highly recommended!

This is the best short story collection I've read, right up there with John Collier's 'Fancies and Goodnights' though in an altogether different vein.

Thanks to pills I did not sin

These short stories do a wonderful thing. They suck you in imperceptibly in such a way that even if you were not immediately gripped, by the end you will have fallen in love with the central idea. The simple is so often profound in Vonnegut's hands.

My first foray into Vonnegut's collection. What a great book to start with, I'm hooked and just ordered another book of his. Monkeyhouse as a collection of short stories is lucid, imaginative, and vivid in its content.
Not all the stories were published in the same year, but they're mostly dated from before 1964. I find that noteworthy because he has a few sci-fi leaning stories that are astonishingly predictive of our relationship with technology today. *SPOILER* One story brings up AI without ever calling it that specifically, but the concept is all there, with a self-conscious machine coming alive and understanding human relationships, just to decide for itself that it preferred committing suicide than to go through the pain of never feeling human love. It's uncannily prescient for its time. The characters are wild, the dialogue is honest, the descriptions are funny.

5 for Welcome to the Monkey House (the short stories)
2 for Palm Sunday (the autobiographical essays / speeches / etc. I skimmed a lot of this.