Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: mrdux
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:54 AM

I had just reread a couple of them . . . they've aged gracefully.

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 02:28 AM

Holy shit...he was one of my most favourite authors....I think I will have to reread his stories again...

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: Ernest
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:46 AM

"This is no disgrace. A lot of good people can`t make it on the outside" (Jailbird)

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:45 AM

......wow........One of those you know is always around and now he's not. The only sci-fi I could read and enjoy was his and Adams'. I think jis stories were down my alley as they were tales combining weirdness and great humor. How could you not love that?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: mrdux
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:43 AM

". . . the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart."

                      -- from The Sirens of Titan (1959)

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:43 AM

A true original. One of the authors that was required reading in my college years. Farewell to Kilgore Trout...

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: Peace
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:17 AM

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."

Subject: RE: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 01:11 AM

"So it goes."

Subject: Obit: Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut
From: Amos
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 12:58 AM

Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.


Mr. Vonnegut suffered irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago, according to his wife, Jill Krementz.

Mr. Vonnegut wrote plays, essays and short fiction. But it was his novels that became classics of the American counterculture, making him a literary idol, particularly to students in the 1960s and '70s. Dog-eared paperback copies of his books could be found in the back pockets of blue jeans and in dorm rooms on campuses throughout the United States.