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[Mnementh]

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

 

[Johnny C]

Truly saddening.

[caulfield]

yea, there was an artist at effing it up

(whatever "it" may be)

from the moment Billy came unstuck in time to that mystical moment when Kilgore rose up and materialized from the text of the novel in my hands

I WAS ENTHRALLED Mr V... I'll think fondly of you whenever I steal a mirror... Oh! that my confused little heart could but break under the overwhelming weight of this (beautiful*) cosmic joke; alas it simply sighs in petty contemplative introspection

* - tragic

[Inlander]

Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut. I think maybe the world wasn't good enough for you.

[Fiddler]

I got to see him speak here at OSU this past year.  He was just as awesome to listen to as you'd expect.  He told us that it was going to be the last time he consented to give a public lecture and how he was happy that it was here at Ohio State because it was also the place where he gave one of his first.  Just too bad more people didnt get to hear him speak, he was a really interesting guy with a lot of great stories.

[ThePQ4]

You know...this makes me feel kind of bad that I actually have a copy of Slaughterhouse Five sitting on my desk --that's been on my desk for like three months that I picked up off of the Free-Ledge near the Library Resource Center... Maybe in memoriam I shall read it this weekend. (...Is Memoriam the right/a word? Whatever)

[ScrambledGregs]

This hits me really hard because Vonnegut is my idol and it was one of my dreams to meet him someday. If I become even half the writer, human being, or wonderful personality he was, I will be happy.

[Ally]

I was so upset to learn this today, but he definitely will not be forgotten.

[Mnementh]

Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut. I think maybe the world wasn't good enough for you.

I think that much like he wrote about Mark Twain, he finally "stopped laughing at his own agony and that of those around him. He denounced life on this planet as a crock. He died."

In that context his passing is appropriate, even poetic, and the sad thing is that the world was in such a sorry state when he left.

[Beautiful Maladies]

I would like to think that Mr. Vonnegut died happy.  He once said something, concerning his "retirement", that comforted me this morning when I found out. I will not put it in quotes, because I can rely only on my memory, but it was something to the effects of his feeling like a flower that, after blooming, is able to rest, believing that it had served some purpose.

Kurt Vonnegut's work changed my life.  I feel today like I have lost a mentor.

Safe journey, Mr. Vonnegut.  If we do indeed spend eternity reliving our lives again and again, I hope that yours proved to be pleasant.

[Will]

Kurt is in heaven now...

[Derek Lincoln]

I was about to make a "So it goes" topic before I saw this. I do mourn his death, but, frankly, he probably wanted it this way. He had attempted suicide before.

That being said, I was shocked to find out that he had died. He is one of my all-time favorite authors, and his death is another bit of the 20th century dying away.

[caulfield]

I was about to make a "So it goes" topic before I saw this. I do mourn his death, but, frankly, he probably wanted it this way. He had attempted suicide before.

That being said, I was shocked to find out that he had died. He is one of my all-time favorite authors, and his death is another bit of the 20th century dying away.

He smoked like a fiend too and is famously quoted as considering cigarettes an acceptable and dignified form of eventual suicide.

[MattBurns]

So if I could only read one novel by Mr Vonnegut, which one should it be?

[jimbunny]

I think everyone should read Cat's Cradle, at least as part of any attempt at figuring out what the 20th century was all about. I tried slogging my way through Slaughterhouse 5 and failed half-way through. I should probably try again, though.

[Storm Rider]

Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle are the classics, I think.

[Clara]

I did my paper on this guy last year, so I feel like I need to fill a big vacuum all of a sudden.

[Johnny C]

I'd start at Breakfast of Champions and work onwards.

Yeah, that's a great starting point. I found a copy for two dollars at Value Village and would rather have it than some books I've bought new.

[MattBurns]

Indianapolis declared this the Year of Kurt Vonnegut.

http://www.imcpl.org/events/yearofvonnegut/yovevents.html

seems kind of ironic.