View Full Version : Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84
Not really related to anything here, but he was a great novelist with a wonderfull sense of humor who will be sorely missed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_re_us/obit_vonnegut
Frolicking Dinosaurs
04-12-2007, 06:15
We have lost an excellent novelist. Prayers for his family to be comforted.
SGT Rock
04-12-2007, 06:17
Defiantly someone that didn't follow conventions when it came to writing. Loved his books.
My condolences to his family.
The Old Fhart
04-12-2007, 06:38
Thanks to Kurt Vonnegut, whenever I hear someone says they are "going to take a leak" I hide my mirrors.
We will miss Kilgore Trout, Billy Pilgrim, ice-nine with the pile of cannon balls, and that whole other universe he took us to.
Owww, that is a real loss. Kurt was quite possibly the greatest living American author (imo.) I'll miss his wit and humor. The American Humanist Association will have to find a new Honorary President. RIP, Kurt. So it goes.
It's related to hiking for me... I read 3 of his books during my AT thru. Very sad that he's gone... he had a unique mind.
I think this is from Sirens of Titan:
Rented a tent
Rented a tent
Rented a Rented a tent
Baum Trigger
04-12-2007, 09:21
"My name is Yon Yonson, I come from Wisconsin. I work as a lumberjack there. The people I meet when I walk down the street, they ask me my name and I say..." ...so it goes...
A great man and a wonderful novelist. He will truly be missed...
problably one of the few authors who i have liked enough to read all they have had published..........that i know of
a question to all who adore him.......
who else would you suggest reading??????
remember....."so it goes"
peace
jeff
Prayers for him and his family. It is good that we have his books, so part of his magic is still here. Great novelist.
superman
04-12-2007, 14:01
"I never liked him anyways."
if you are being serious i would say some things are better left unsaid...untyped....but he problably wouldnt care that you said that
jch
Oh Wow!
BIG freakin bummer.
This is like losing Lennon (almost).
I am so depressed...
:( :( :( :(
"I never liked him anyways."
He never disliked you. Of course, he probably never met you.
jambalaya
04-12-2007, 15:15
I just read "A Man Without a Country" a few days ago and was wishing he'd finish his novel about the little mauve men from space. I never did write him a fan letter but I hope he gets it in the chrono-synclastic infundibulum.
problably one of the few authors who i have liked enough to read all they have had published..........that i know of
a question to all who adore him.......
who else would you suggest reading??????
remember....."so it goes"
peace
jeff
I would start at the source, the final writings of Mark Twain, unreleased until after his death. They are A Pen Warmed in Hell and Letters from Earth. Both are wicked reflections on American society and its fascination with money and god. Also, the funniest stuff I have ever read. Also, some of the saddest.
I would also look up H.L. Mencken. A little rough but spot on analysis of American culture.
Some Tom Robbins is as fantastic.
I always just read Cat's Cradle or God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater again.
The final line of his final novel, Timequake, "What a brother, what a language." Sleep well, brother. * (Breakfast of Champions)
problably one of the few authors who i have liked enough to read all they have had published..........that i know of
a question to all who adore him.......
who else would you suggest reading??????
remember....."so it goes"
peace
jeff
I second Tom Robbins (born in Blowing Rock, NC 1936 not TOO far from the AT...).
Bless you Kurt
thanks for the feedback
jch
Skidsteer
04-12-2007, 17:06
Another vote for Tom Robbins....
I would start at the source, the final writings of Mark Twain, unreleased until after his death. They are A Pen Warmed in Hell and Letters from Earth. Both are wicked reflections on American society and its fascination with money and god. Also, the funniest stuff I have ever read. Also, some of the saddest.
I'd have to say almost all of Twain's works are worth a read. He had such an irreverent outlook on almost everything that you could mistake him for a modern day author. Pity we don't have another Twain around right now.
superman
04-12-2007, 17:55
Originally Posted by superman http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=351662#post351662)
"I never liked him anyways."
He never disliked you. Of course, he probably never met you.
Notice the qoutes on my post. It was a qoute from one of his books.
my apologies to superman.......i just glanced at the post while doing (or not doing) three different things at work........i figured as much after seeing the quotes..... after i reacted..........my newb knucklehead should have thought better....the people and insights here at WB are great... hope u enjoys this pic i just arranged
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/jeffhartman1019/IMGP0549.jpg
jch
who else would you suggest reading??????
peace
jeff
Ray Bradbury, Leonard Wibberley, and George Orwell are close to his genre. But I've never found anyone as wonderfully twisted as Vonnegut.