BornToRun86 Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 So it goes. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?hp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 damn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Oh man. This digs deep. I'm proud to say he was a product of the area I live in. Cheers Kurt. :: should dig out something for a re-read :: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 anyone else seeing a webbanner of george washington swallowing money? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 This makes me very sad. He had a huge influence on me when I was young. I had always hoped to write something someday that he would have liked. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
explodo Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Fuck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 One of my fave authors...gonna miss him. I've never laughed so hard reading a book as I have with his (Breakfast of Champions, Sirens of Titan...take your pick!). I feel like lighting up a Pall Mall unfiltered in tribute. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MeDave Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 sad sad news. poo tee weet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 And don't forget his star turn in Back To School. A true great. RIP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
virtualreason Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I read SH5 my junior year in high school. There was one passage that always made me smile: "Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton. This law tells us that for every action there is a reaction which is equal and opposite in direction. This can be useful in rocketry." I now own almost every book/essay collection that he's ever done. He's the single greatest author alive during my lifetime, without a doubt. With one page he could make you ponder life, laugh out loud, and sink to the depths of ultra-saddness. Great man. Hello, goodbye, hello, goodbye. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pnêyu Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I've been dreading this day. I saw him at a book signing in Berkeley in the early '90s, around the time of the first Gulf War. He was a little less than spry back then, but that didn't stop him from railing against the invasion. Of course, now we're back in Iraq, and Kurt is gone. It doesn't seem fair. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
deepseacatfish Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Aw man, this is a real drag. One of my favorite authors period. Always brilliant and funny simultaneously. I'll have to do some re-reading I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Oh man. I just picked up "Welcome to the Monkey House" yesterday to re-read. So it goes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyflynn Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Bye Kurt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thisyearsgirl Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 this is sad news. another great one gone. definitely on of indiana's best. (we like to claim him...at least, i do) i read slaughterhouse five this winter for the first time...best non-music book i've read in a long time, though breakfast of champions has long been a fave of mine. if you haven't read them, you should. rest in peace, kurt. you were one cool guy and inspired a lot of people with your unique style, including me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HighFives Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 shit. I remember he was like the first dude to call bullshit on bush. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 This has really shocked me... what a great, great shame. A literary legend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scalzunfield Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I've got nothing else to say on this. That smiley says it all. This just ruined my day quite early on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." Haven't gotten too into his work until recently, but he's great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wendy Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Because of the amount of required textbook reading throughout the years of my education, by the time I graduated from college in 1978, I pretty much hated reading, even for pleasure. After not reading a book for 2 years, my older sister gave me some shit about that and handed me a book, told me I would like it. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. It worked. So thank-you Linda for the nudge, but mostly to Kurt Vonnegut for writing the kind of books that saved me from my own stupid self-imposed literary exile. I loved him for that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 The world is a lesser place without him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 i didn't have him in this year's dead pool. he's one of the few people i couldn't bring myself to adding. he's the best. i use his stuff a lot in my classes and read his stuff frequently. i'm wearing my kilgore trout jacket in memoriam. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clouds of Fluff Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Very sad. He will be missed. His is one voice we were still desperately needing in this day and age. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobfrombob Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I'm actually about a third of the way through a re-read of Cat's Cradle RiP Kurt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I'm actually about a third of the way through a re-read of Cat's CradleThat book takes about twenty seconds to read. You actually put it down? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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