Kurt Vonnegut has died

[Antibubba]

Sorry, no link--my browser keeps crashing whenever I try.

[wmenorr67]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265453,00.html

Here is the link to the foxnews.com story.

[BakerMikeRomeo]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Link from the wikipedia page. I find it very slightly creepy that there's a "Recently Deceased" template...

~GnSx

[Firethorn]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Link from the wikipedia page. I find it very slightly creepy that there's a "Recently Deceased" template...

~GnSx

Why?  People die all the time, oftentimes unexpectably.  Templates speed things up.  Without a template, in today's fast internet society, without the assistance of a template you'd have a harder time getting the article up while the 'recent' is still true.

[El Tejon]

I just drove by his house on Illinois Street in Indianapolis last Saturday.  It's for sale, asking 1.1 million.  Looks like a nice place, but I've never been inside the place.

Good-bye, Kurt, you will be missed.  I think I'll re-read one of his works this weekend.

[Manedwolf]

Damn. And I missed a chance to hear him speak a few years ago. 

If you want a book that's a literal punch in the gut with some of the most painful irony ever put to paper, read his "Sirens of Titan".

And "Harrison Bergeron" should be THE warning of all time as to the dangers of PC-ness and trying to declare everyone to be "equal" and "special".

[Manedwolf]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Link from the wikipedia page. I find it very slightly creepy that there's a "Recently Deceased" template...

~GnSx

Really, all the media companies have entire libraries of retrospectives of the lives of politicians and celebrities always at the ready in case one dies. They've always had that.

[Eleven Mike]

If you want a book that's a literal punch in the gut

I think you mean literary. 

[Manedwolf]

If you want a book that's a literal punch in the gut

I think you mean literary. 

That, too, but meaning meant as stated...you'd have to read it to understand, especially the resolution in the last chapter. It'd make some people want to throw themselves off a bridge. 

[Eleven Mike]

Oh, so it's a pop-up book.   

[Angel Eyes]

Vonnegut is dead.  So it goes.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I tried to read some of his stuff years ago. It was impenetrably poorly written.

[lee n. field]

Kurt Vonnegut has a brief and unnamed appearance in Niven and Pournelle's http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Larry-Niven/dp/B000NJPCRO/ref=sr_1_5/103-9711485-7905416?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176467275&sr=8-5" target="_blank">Inferno.

[DJJ]

Thatt, too, but meaning meant as stated...you'd have to read it to understand, especially the resolution in the last chapter. It'd make some people want to throw themselves off a bridge.

You mean the repair part, and the messages to Salo? Somehow, I was tickled by that. Wouldn't that be ironic?

[mindwarp]

http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/kurt_vonnegut_breakfast_of_champions_podcast/

Link to an MP3 of Vonnegut reading one of his works, Breakfast of Champions. For those interested; enjoy...

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[El Tejon]

The Indianapolis Star ran a tribute to him yesterday, April 13th.  *sniff, sniff*  Good-bye, Kurt.

[MechAg94]

Okay, for one reason or another I have never read any of his stuff.  What single book would y'all recommend? 

[wmenorr67]

Slaughterhouse Five

[El Tejon]

Harrison Bergeron, a terrifying tale of a Leftist utopia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

[Manedwolf]

Harrison Bergeron, a terrifying tale of a Leftist utopia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

I second that one. It's the only possible way to make everyone equal, and it is, and should be, terrifying.

[slzy]

kurt was one of geraldo riverias 5 father-in-laws. no matter what you may think of kurt,they say he detested geraldo.