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I enjoy light reading, too, but it still has to be well written. It can be light, breezy, goofy and inconsequential, but the writer needs to know how to construct sentences and has to have some kind of ear for language. Vonnegut really excelled at writing in a way that seems effortless and certainly is easy to read, but it's still top-notch writing by any literary standard.
I don't demand Vonnegut-quality writing from everyone (if I did, I'd have precious little to read) but the prose shouldn't sound like an elementary school band on Monday morning.
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