Jon Stewart Answers: What Book Should Everyone Read? | The Daily Show

I volunteered for The Vonnegut Museum at a conference for authors and publishers . I was there 3 days and every day people would come up and tell me their stories about how Vonnegut changed their lives. Some were just fans, but many of them had known him personally. He was so deeply loved and appreciated by the people who knew him. Read Vonnegut! His books will change your life.

I so happy Jon came back for this, we really needed him.

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the people who made me realize that life is worth living every day, instead of just finding the way out-because once you’re out, you’re still going to be there. You just won’t ever be the same again.

What's a book? It"s like a movie you watch in your head.

"optimistic cynical humanism" - that's what I was looking for

"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that." KV

Vonnegut FTW. I was introduced to him as required reading in high school and just kept going... also Meditations by Aurelius.

I call myself a cynical optimist humanist, and I would describe you and Vonnegut the same way. I remember when you interviewed Vonnegut and WOULD love to see the doodle! Bill Maher had interviewed him as well as he was releasing his Man Without a Country book, and Vonnegut said something about Mother Earth's immune system kicking in soon to flush all of humanity out. That day, I had already given up on humanity and felt like, see Vonnegut gave up too, so I guess there is no hope. Then I watched YOUR interview of him and cried at the clear reverence in your eyes as you spoke to him and decided that I could never give up on humanity because no matter how much of a losing battle it seems to be, I want people like you and Vonnegut to be able to see me alongside you fighting till the end: not to win, just so that those who are brave enough to keep hoping don't have to go at it alone. I love you and him so much! Thank you!! Your interview really saved me that day, and I'll never forget it!

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I've always enjoyed Jon Stewart 's perspective, to my ears he is the sound of sanity. The way he fought for the 9/11 First responders shows his character in the face of government hypocrisy. To know that he values Kurt Vonnegut's writing says a lot. Thanks for all you do Jon Stewart, America needs more people like you.

I've read a lot of Vonnegut, and that explains so much about Jon!

Dyslexia makes reading a chore but I have read every book Kurt wrote. Sirens of Titan, pure genius.

YES! So it was that I, then-13-years old kid in Russia, stumbled upon Vonnegut's book in 1997, and it was transformative. Even now, he's one of two most important people for making me a human being I am today.

Thanks Jon. I saw him speak once. One of the two best speakers that I ever heard. The other was Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Both in '85.

Love Vonnegut, essential reading..

There was a Dutch comedian who said in a show “you know, a book, like a stack of faxes”… but that one doesn’t fly anymore 😂

That was short and sweet, salient. It makes so much sense for Jon to be into Vonnegut, he's been a favorite of mine admittedly starting with Sirens of Titan. The mantra "if this isn't nice, what is?" has truly helped me to appreciate my own life. Cannot recommend pretty much anything he's written, enough.

This dialog hits me in my heart... Kurt Vonnegut was an amazing human being!!

This crazy year we're living through would be that much more difficult without the guiding light of J Stew to talk us through this madness.

Slaughterhouse Five is a masterpiece, one of my favorite books ever!