Goodbye Kurt Vonnegut!

[pixie9]

I was saddened to learn of the passing of SUCH a great novelist! I think my favorite book was Breakfast of Champions. It looks like I'm going to have to revisit some of his books soon. A great man and a great artist!

So long!

 

[TeTe]

I know...very sad. I loved "Slaughterhouse-Five."

 

[Beavs]

I enjoy his writing and I thought it was cool that his brother worked at the library where I attended graduate school. I never said anything to him of course---I figured others pestered him enough ;-)

 

[Gayle]

I also really liked "Slaughterhouse Five".

I thought it was funny that Vonnegut made a cameo appearance in Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School". Rodney's character hired Vonnegut to write a report about Vonnegut...which got an "F".

 

[pixiesis]

Kurt Vonnegut is one of my all-time favorite writers. He wrote such cutting satires yet he always wrote with so much love for humanity. I'm so sad he's gone, but I knew it was coming. The guy smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes for almost his whole life, yet he kept on ticking for so long. I'll miss him-he was like the crazy old grandfather I never had.

Amy

 

[mrsmel]

I'm also a big fan. I can't name a favorite, but Timequake is one I return to again and again. Just such a unique premise, I thought. Now I need to re-read his stuff, it's been a while!

anne

 

[Aquajock]

My favorite Kurt Vonnegut novels were "Player Piano" (which, IMHO, ranked up with "1984" and "Brave New World" for visions of future dystopias), "Mother Night", "The Sirens of Titan" and "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater". I went to a Kurt Vonnegut lecture in St. Paul back in 1989, and before the lecture as we were all waiting to be ushered into the hall, there comes Mr. Vonnegut sauntering through the lobby like HE was going to listen to Mr. Vonnegut too.

A sad day for American letters.

A-Jock