Kurt Vonnegut dead @ 84

[Lord of The Curry]

It won't get the exposure it deserves there. This sucks.

[Ravenbomb]

damn.

[Darthtiki]

So it goes.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Wow, that's terrible. Although I'd thought he'd long since died.

[snuffbox]

A very important writer.

 

According to Fox News he wrote 'Catcher in the Rye'. Yeesh.

[EL BRUJ0]

According to Fox News he wrote 'Catcher in the Rye'. Yeesh.

 

It won't get the exposure it deserves there.

 

 

 

god bless you, mr. Vonnegut

[Edwin MacPhisto]

I totally thought he was dead already. Oh well. He was a favorite of mine in 8th grade or so, but I got tired of the formula after that.

[Mik]

He was still writing for the Cornell Daily Sun as recently as a few months ago.

 

One of the greatest Cornellians.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

First "serious" writer I ever got into. I haven't read him in years, though; I should read a couple of 'em soon.

[Guest Eagle Man]

I was gonna buy Slaughterhouse-Five on Saturday, but I didn't, because I have so much other stuff to read.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!]

Slaughterhouse-Five is my least favorite of the Vonnegut I've read. I've always felt that it pales in comparison to the thematically very similar Catch-22. It's got a little too much whimsy in it to be a really effective anti-war novel, I think.

[snuffbox]

Slaughterhouse 5 eclipses most all anti-war books due the autobiographical back-story Vonnegut brought to it. How anyone could find it to have more 'whimsy' than Catch-22 is really beyond me.

 

Is that one of those examples of saying two books are very similar when really they're not at all, like Catcher/Rye and Separate Peace?

[vivalaultra]

Not to turn this into a literature thread, but Slaughterhouse-Five is my second favorite war novel, right behind anything by Tim O'Brien, but I'm a big Tim O'Brien fanboy anyway. I think to look at the whimsical elements of the book as detractors from the story and the strength of the story is to diminish the style of Vonnegut, as all of his novels have that whimsical element. I think that element is what makes him the first 'serious' author read by so many young bibliophiles.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse Five are really nothing alike, it's true.

[Big Ol' Smitty]

Vonnegut was awesome, I am going to go buy his latest (Man Without a Country) in honor of his death.

[Guest Eagle Man]

Not to turn this into a literature thread,

But it's about Kurt Vonnegut.

[Art Sandusky]

Edwin and Inc are right. I just happen to love the formula.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Vonnegut was awesome, I am going to go buy his latest (Man Without a Country) in honor of his death.

You'd be better off buying one of his older books. Unless you already have them, then go ahead.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I forgot to mention that the last thing I clearly remember reading that Vonnegut wrote (it was either in the aforementioned book or something I was linked to online) consisted of him saying "I'm 82 and still have my driver's license!" He probably had to wipe the drool from his keyboard after typing that.

[Big Ol' Smitty]

Vonnegut was awesome, I am going to go buy his latest (Man Without a Country) in honor of his death.

You'd be better off buying one of his older books. Unless you already have them, then go ahead.

 

I think I have all of the others.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Then knock yourself out! Vonnegut got really bad late in his life, though, albeit almost amusingly so.

[Murmuring Beast]

Breakfast of Champions - a work of fucking genius.