Influential Author Vonnegut Dies at 84

Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:23 AM EDT
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Michael Sautter

So sad. He was a great writer. I probably read more of his books than any other author.

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  • 13 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:34 AM EDT
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Raskolnikov

Yep

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  • 3 votes
#1.1 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:30 AM EDT
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Mykola Bilokonsky

No! God damn it. This is really terrible.

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  • 15 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:37 AM EDT
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Corey Spring

I knew you were going to be one of the first to comment on this.

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  • 1 vote
#2.1 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:54 AM EDT
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Sarcophilus

vale Kurt......great writer!

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  • 6 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:39 AM EDT
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SpotlightDIVA

Dang, this is the first American writer that I really fell in love with. He shall be missed. RIP.

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  • 6 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:19 AM EDT
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Captain Carrot

Vonnegut and Mark Twain were just about the only popular American fiction writers worth reading, in my opinion.

At least his works are immortal.

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  • 5 votes
#4.1 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:46 AM EDT
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Greg Plancich

Goodbye sir, we'll see you again in past times for we are all just centipedes traveling across time and space.

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  • 8 votes
Reply#5 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:23 AM EDT
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Zaki

Madness. All our heroes are disappearing.

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  • 7 votes
Reply#6 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:25 AM EDT
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ChaosLight

"I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, "Isaac is up in heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke." --- Kurt Vonnegut.

Kurt is up in heaven now.

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  • 14 votes
Reply#7 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:45 AM EDT
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Raskolnikov

RIP Mr. Trout.

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  • 4 votes
Reply#8 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:36 AM EDT
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Gary Kemble

It's a great loss. Vonnegut had the courage to discard traditional narrative structure. He told his stories his way, on his terms. He had a great, dark sense of humour, and the stories he told were both melancholic and hilarious... and so on.

I particularly loved his alter ego Kilgore Trout.

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  • 4 votes
Reply#9 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:48 AM EDT
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Gary Kemble

PS Articulate is running an online tribute. Feel free to contribute here.

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  • 3 votes
Reply#10 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:50 AM EDT
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Si Levitas

So it goes.

:(

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  • 5 votes
Reply#11 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:31 AM EDT
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ScooterDMan

:)

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  • 2 votes
#11.1 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:26 AM EDT
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John W

Listen: Kurt Vonnegut has become unstuck in time.

Oh, @!$%#.

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  • 5 votes
Reply#12 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:57 AM EDT
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LunarTick

God Bless You, Mr Vonnegut

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  • 2 votes
Reply#13 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:45 AM EDT
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faust-132915

He was wonderful to the end. Bravo! To a life worth living. He will be missed.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#14 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:59 AM EDT
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Interrobanger

Interesting, the AP version of this I saw listed "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" instead of "Hocus Pocus." I guess every newspaper copy-rewriter has their own third favorite novel...

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  • 1 vote
Reply#15 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:04 PM EDT
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cpg

*

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  • 3 votes
Reply#16 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:31 PM EDT
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LunarTick

ewwwww

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  • 2 votes
#16.1 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:55 PM EDT
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James_Woodard

In high school I shuddered at the thought that I HAD to read "Slaughterhouse Five." I'm so fortunate that our school never banned it. His gift to freethinking pessimists and cynics (of which I count myself among) will live on as long as libraries exist. They can try to ban books, but they can't ban ideas.

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  • 1 vote
Reply#17 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:57 PM EDT
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James_Woodard

sorry..of WHOM I count myself among.

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  • 1 vote
#17.1 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:22 PM EDT
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The Messenger

sad news, a true genius.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#18 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:44 PM EDT
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Gary Kemble

You can read some tributes to Kurt at the ABC's Articulate weblog.

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  • 1 vote
Reply#19 - Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:04 AM EDT
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