When first published, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby directed booksellers to stock the book in the sociology section of book stores. Many versions of the book are headed by an incomplete quotation from Kurt Vonnegut: "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius." Vonnegut's full quotation was "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius who will do anything to get attention."Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. "Infarcted! Tabescent!" The New York Times Book Review, June 27, 1965. Retrieved on January 13, 2008.Capouya, Emile. "True Facts and Artifacts", Saturday Review, July 31, 1965, pp. 23–24. In . In the same review Kurt Vonnegut wrote: "Interestingly: the most tender piece in this collection depends upon a poem by Rudyard Kipling for depth, and has Huntington Hartford for its hero."
