kurt vonnegut's dead

[Bob]

so it goes (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?hp) :(

guy was 84 though, i suppose when it's time it's time.

god bless you mr. vonnegut, etc

[cosmo105]

wow. definitely be pouring some on the curb this weekend. :(

[DandyFop]

He ain't dead yet? I guess I just assumed..

er...wasn't dead, I mean

[cosmo105]

this is seriously making me so depressed. sucks so hard.

[monkey]

:( i just heard and i got oh so sad. RIP

[Parkey]

R.I.P. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6547399.stm)

[yeahwho]

What a great writer. I only read two of his books and the last one was "A Man Without a Country" which was fantastic, short but fantastic. The other one was Slaughterhouse 5.

I'm glad he lived his life the way he did, he overcame many demons and an attempted suicide and came out the other end.

Much respect Kurt, Rest in Peace. Thanks for what you left behind on the bookshelves.

[yeahwho]

Can someone fill me in on who he is?

Famous American Author
Kurt Vonnegut was vocal about politics (http://mulliganstew.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/a-man-without-a-country-kurt-vonnegut/) and the rising anti-intellectualism in America (http://www.amazon.com/Man-Without-Country-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/081297736X/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4699948-0391219?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176380945&sr=8-1).

[abcdefz]

God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut. (y)

[DIGI]

RIP, sir. Man, I need to quit smoking.:(

[Jiberish]

What a great writer. I only read two of his books and the last one was "A Man Without a Country" which was fantastic, short but fantastic. The other one was Slaughterhouse 5.

I'm glad he lived his life the way he did, he overcame many demons and an attempted suicide and came out the other end.

Much respect Kurt, Rest in Peace. Thanks for what you left behind on the bookshelves.

Read every one of his books. They are all excellent. Dead Eye Dick is my number one pick. Then Breakfast of Champions.

I read Slaughter House 5 in the 6th grade. It changed my life. He made me want to read.

[MC Moot]

holy shit.....this is the first I've heard......thankyou Mr Rosewater for everything.....god bless and goodnight.....what a prince he was.....(y) (y) (y) (y) (y)

Well as he would have said.....AND SO IT GOES

I won't mourn him cause he'd just laugh at me.....I can't wait for post-mortem publishing,he'd like that......

[Bob]

this is seriously making me so depressed. sucks so hard.

me too, but it's weird. it's not like it really ought to be especially sad, i mean he was old, and judging from what i know about him, i'd almost bet that he was about ready to go, you know? i wouldn't really have known he was still alive if i hadn't heard he was dead. he lived a full life, and there's still a bunch of books of his i haven't read, his dying really shouldn't be so sad, but it is

[abcdefz]

His son-in-law was (is?) Geraldo Rivera (sp?). True story.

Those must have been some interesting Thanksgiving dinners. :D

[beastieangel01]

bummer :(

[Lyman Zerga]

well he was old

[MC Moot]

Has anyone ever watched the film version of "Slaughterhouse 5"??..."Breakfast of Champions" with Bruce Willis was pretty brutal alot of liberty was taken....although the insertion of the little drawings/illustrations from the book was trick....the only books that didn't really work for me were "Wapeters and Grandfalloons" and "Timequake".....I'm currently reading a book about him called "Sanity Plea : schizophrenia in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut" as part of my professional development plan.....he had some very sad issues,especially with Dresden.....the only thing I have'nt read is "Fates worse than death : an autobiographical collage of the 1980s"...probably will now....

"You think Arabs are dumb? Have you ever tried long division with Roman numerals?" Man Without a Country

[Lex Diamonds]

well he was old
Word, he had it coming.

[abcdefz]

Has anyone ever watched the film version of "Slaughterhouse 5"??...



It had some stuff going for it.

Check Keith Gordon's Mother Night with Nick Nolte.

[Dorothy Wood]

I tried to read Hocus Pocus once.

I have no feelings about this because I never read anything else by him, so I have no emotional attachment.

R.I.P. Kurt

[abcdefz]

I like God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Slaughterhouse Five the best.


He really wasn't that good of a writer; he mainly had wit and ideas. It was pretty impressive in high school, but I tried to go back to it as an adult and it didn't hold up well. Kinda like Richard Brautigan.

[MC Moot]

Check Keith Gordon's Mother Night with Nick Nolte.
ahhhh...I didn't know,nice.....he must have been a fan...but Nolte as Harry Le Sabre in Breakfast Of Champions ticked me off cause the character is clearly described as a black man in the book.....kinda like Wilson Fisk as the Kingpin in Daredevil...(n)

[abcdefz]

I didn't see Breakfast of Champions. It got such horrible reviews. Plus the only Alan Rudolph movie I've liked so far has been Love at Large. So I just said "meh."

[MC Moot]

Worth buying for ya personal Library

Cat's Cradle
Mother Night
Slapstick:Or Lonesome No More
Welcome to the Monkey House
God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls before swine
Galapagos
God Bless You Dr Kevorkian
Bagombo Snuff Box
Slaughter House 5
Breakfast of Champions
Hocus Pocus


Worth passing over in my humble opinion

Sirens of Titan
Timequake
Palm Sunday
Deadeye Dick
Bluebeard


Ha! I just realized I have not read his first book "Player Piano",excellent! :)

[SugarInTheRaw]

Slaughter House 5


I want to check this out.

[Lo_Lyfe]

Wow, you guys dug this dude, huh? The only equivalent amount of sadness I could find in someone famous dying would be if Leslie Nielsen went.

[MC Moot]

I want to check this out.

You will never see a Zoo in the same light again.....(y)

[cosmo105]

Cat's Cradle-read
Welcome to the Monkey House-read, i think
God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls before swine-read
Slaughter House 5-read
Breakfast of Champions-read (awesome, awesome)
Deadeye Dick-read

i also read a collection of his letters and essays a few years back. really, it's been so long that i don't remember much of any of it. but i loved it enough to call him my favorite author for years. i'm borrowing his last work from my mom sometime in the next few weeks. and i bought player piano years ago and never got around to reading it.

i'm glad he existed. so it goes.

[MC Moot]

i also read a collection of his letters and essays a few years back. really, it's been so long that i don't remember much of any of it. but i loved it enough to call him my favorite author for years....

Until today I still would have said he was my favorite "living American authour of fiction"....followed closely by Tom Robbins......(y) :)

[kaiser soze]

Ironically I was talking to my friend about "Cat's Cradle" just the other night and how much I enjoyed reading Vonnegut's books while stationed out in the middle of nowhere in Saudi Arabia

[DandyFop]

I dedicated Nuthin But a G Thang to him last night at karaoke. Bunch of blank stares :(

[Bob]

makin hocus pocus like my man kurt vonnegut

*b-boy stance*

[Yeti]

Who's going to be the next century's voice of confusion and dread?

[abcdefz]

Let's worry about this century, for now.

[Bob]

Who's going to be the next century's voice of confusion and dread?

fuck, i'll do it

[MC Moot]

Who's going to be the next century's voice of confusion and dread?

poignant question.....(y)

[Yeti]

fuck, i'll do it

Go ahead Bob..... may I suggest a title for your book? Oh, well, I will do it anyway.

The Sirens of the Tie