<p>I liked Slaughterhouse Five.</p>
<p>Regarding Vonnegut, IIRC he was a chemistry major at Cornell but spent all his time and energy on The Daily Sun and was basically flunking out, a fate which he enlisted to avoid.
He liked the Sun, obviously, but did not like Cornell. After the war he never came back there, rather he got a Master’s at U Chicago (without benefit of a prior BA, evidently you could do that then) on the GI bill. </p>
<p>He did not graduate from Cornell. If he took any English department courses at all there, the GPA issue casts doubt on how well he did in them.</p>
<p>Yet Cornell undoubtedly shaped his future path, as he put his reporting skills to good use while a POW during the bombing of Dresden. And the rest is history.</p>