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Influential Author Vonnegut Dies at 84
Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is shown in New York City in 1979. Kurt Vonnegut's wife says the satirical novelist of works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle" has died Wednesday Aprill 11, 2007 at age 84. (AP Photo/Marty Reichenthal-File)
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Dang, this is the first American writer that I really fell in love with. He shall be missed. RIP.
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#4 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:19 AM EDTVonnegut 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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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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#5 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:23 AM EDT"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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#7 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:45 AM EDTIt'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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#9 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:48 AM EDTListen: Kurt Vonnegut has become unstuck in time.
Oh, @!$%#.
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#12 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:57 AM EDTHe was wonderful to the end. Bravo! To a life worth living. He will be missed.
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#14 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:59 AM EDTInteresting, 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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#15 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:04 PM EDTIn 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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#17 - Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:57 PM EDTYou can read some tributes to Kurt at the ABC's Articulate weblog.
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