http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/...b-0412obit.php
The man helped make my head a better place to be.:frown:
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/...b-0412obit.php
The man helped make my head a better place to be.:frown:
wow.
he was one of my favourite authors, especially some of his short stories.
Sad news.
His books helped me rediscover a love of reading when I was in my teens.
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of my favorite books of all-time.
He was great when he appeared in Back To School with Rodney Dangerfield.
what a bummer.
weak. he was one of the only authors whose novels i could read several times over and still enjoy them just as much.
the end of the story from that link:
His last book, in 2005, was a collection of biographical essays, "A Man Without a Country." It, too, was a best seller.
In concludes with a poem written by Vonnegut called "Requiem," which has these closing lines:
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
:frown: Sad to lose one of my favorite authors....:yourock: Vonnegut
RIP.....
I think I never would have made less or more sense out of 'growing up' without him.
He changed my view on EVERYTHING as a young-un'.
BUT, he wouldn't want us giving ANy religious bromides, methinks.
SO, glad to have had you while you were here, Kurt. Thanks.
And fuck all of the religious crap, save it for someone who would have appreciated that gloop.
Very influential author, for me as a lad.
RIP
a great loss. every one of his works are very very good. throughout his art an underlying sense of justice in a world of absurdity. Goodbye to a national treasure.
-aaron
another hero of my teenage years passes. another reminder that i'm growing old.
Hi Ho
"... and another thing, Vonnegut! I'm gonna stop payment on the check!"
"Fuck me? Hey, Kurt, can you read lips, FUCK YOU! Next time I'll call Robert Ludlum!"
See the cat? See the cradle?
He helped me realized that the * can be used in prose to represent an anus.
Great author.
And so it goes
lame as it is, voices like this never die.
A great man.
A great humanitarian.
Thanks for the laughs Kurt.
r. :cool:
Right up there with the best. Vibes, Kurt. Go tell God everything you've learned and preached, and maybe things will change around here...
Definitely one in a million (billion?). Writers like that certainly don't come along very often.
RIP.
RIP Kurt ... May we all live by the foma that make us brave, and kind, and healthy, and happy.
my favorite author. RIP Vonnegut, you made the world a better place.
RIP to one of the best authors of all time. Anyone here ever read Galapagos? If not then get to it.
RIP.
What a unique individual. One in a Billion for sure.
Interesting snips from his bio:
His mother killed herself just before he left for Germany during World War II, where he was quickly taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was being held in Dresden when Allied bombs created a firestorm that killed an estimated tens of thousands of people.
"The firebombing of Dresden explains absolutely nothing about why I write what I write and am what I am," Vonnegut wrote in "Fates Worse Than Death," his 1991 autobiography of sorts.
But he spent 23 years struggling to write about the ordeal, which he survived by huddling with other POW's inside an underground meat locker labeled slaughterhouse-five.
When he returned, he reported for Chicago's City News Bureau, then did public relations for General Electric, a job he loathed. He wrote his first novel, "Player Piano," in 1951, followed by "The Sirens of Titan," "Canary in a Cat House" and "Mother Night," making ends meet by selling Saabs on Cape Cod.
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap," he once suggested carving into a wall on the Grand Canyon, as a message for flying-saucer creatures.
Vonnegut once said that of all the ways to die, he'd prefer to go out in an airplane crash on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. He often joked about the difficulties of old age.
"When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut told The Associated Press in 2005.
"My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."
RIP
His books helped to shape how I see the world.
thanks for everything KV
especially Breakfast of champions and Bluebeard.
but all was good
well maybe not Time quake
but the charecter of the man was more than his works.
he contributed to our yogurt
Quote:
Mark Twain, at the end of a profoundly meaningful life, for which he never received a Nobel Prize, asked himself what it was we all lived for. He came up with six words which satisfied him. They satisfy me, too. They should satisfy you:
''The good opinion of our neighbors.''
Neighbors are people who know you, can see you, can talk to you -- to whom you may have been of some help or beneficial stimulation.... They are not nearly as numerous as the fans, say, of Madonna or Michael Jordan.
To earn their good opinions, you should apply the special skills you have learned here, and meet the standards of decency and honor and fair play set by exemplary books and elders.
Definitely, one of my all time favorites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
Thanks Kurt.
Traveling into the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum..........
He influenced me more than any other writer, I'm so sad yet I know he is probably loving this new adventure.
Maybe I'll do that wall carving for him somewhere the martians can really see it...not sure they would look in the grand canyon. A Target or Walmart would probably draw their attention more immediately. ;)
RIP KV, you da man!
Sprite
My personal favorite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dickeymotto
Thanks Kurt. You didn't waste the air you breathed.
so sad. One of the best.
KV helped me through my teens and influenenced my thinking for decades beyond. I believe he would have considered TGR a granfalloon and all the maggots members.
So it goes.
:frown:
Thank You Kurt Vonnegut.
I too see the world the way I do partially because of him.
beat me to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by StuntCok
One great mind and talented writer exits the earth. I read most of his books. Not one in the bunch that disappointed. A master at the melding of humour and philosophy. Mother Night was a masterpiece as was Slaughterhouse Five
(two books which should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in what happened in WW II and unfortunately continues to happen) . He will be missed.
Leaving behind a wonderful corpus of work, a life for its time, and a humanity rarely seen.
Ars longa, vita brevis.
RIP.
Writers like him are few and far between. Thanks for sharing Kurt.
so it goes.
I read a great article recently about Norman Mailer. it briefly went into how those post WWII novelists, of which Mailer and Vonnegut were a part are so unique to our culture.
thanks guys.
Exactly.Quote:
And so it goes
R.I.P. Kurt. My all time favorite.