I just read my first Vonnegut book–Cat’s Cradle. I’m glad I put in a staff pick for it where I work–I’m told it will be featured on the Staff Picks rack by the end of the night. Thanks for everything, Kurt. May you find your wampeter and enjoy eternity with your karass.
R.I.P. One of America’s treasures.
My wife and I are truly saddened my this news.
RIP Mr Vonnegut
Thank You
Who’s left among us to speak so bold as Kurt?
Peace be with you, Mr. Vonnegut.
One of my all time favorite writers. He left a great body of work, and yes, he is probably the only American writer of the 20th century who can be spoken of in the same breath as Mark Twain.
Wow…
One of my favourite writers…
sarcastic, insightful, and funny…
so it goes…
FML (Sigh)
Modersator. please remove thread… I should have read down further
thanks
FML
I think all of my heros are dead now.
And Vonnegut was set to speak here in Indy this month. I didn’t get tickets at first, but I put ads in the papers and yesterday this man called me to tell me he had two tickets. So I drove over there and he was this really nice old guy, so I gave him $50 for the tickets. And then I had them in my hand and came home and I was so happy because I’ve waited for 15 years to see him speak. Then today they announced that he cancelled and I was so mad. And now I feel terrible and selfish for being mad about it. This is such a shitty fucking day.
Damn.
Now I know I am old.
Just damn.
I think all of my heros are dead now.
And Vonnegut was set to speak here in Indy this month. I didn’t get tickets at first, but I put ads in the papers and yesterday this man called me to tell me he had two tickets. So I drove over there and he was this really nice old guy, so I gave him $50 for the tickets. And then I had them in my hand and came home and I was so happy because I’ve waited for 15 years to see him speak. Then today they announced that he cancelled and I was so mad. And now I feel terrible and selfish for being mad about it. This is such a shitty day.
night kurt…
tsfr
You are so lucky. He was supposed to speak when I was a freshman in college (1992) and he cancelled on the day of the event. And then he was set to speak here in Indy on April 27 and I thought after all this time I’d finally get to see him… I feel delusional with grief over this.
This morning, I went to a press conference where the city announced it’s “One Book, One City” pick was Slaugherhouse-Five. It’s the Year of Vonnegut in Indianapolis (he was a native). At the conference this morning, there was announcement that Kurt would not be able to attend the lecture he was supposed to give April 27 due to illness. The folks at the library told me (in confidence) that it was “very serious” but wouldn’t go into details. I was really upset leaving, and had to take a moment – I knew it was really bad.
He was one of the writers who informed me as a writer. *Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, Player Piano * and the short story “Harrison Bergeron” blew out the walls of my thinking about literature. His characters were innocent and cynical at the same time, accepting and rebellious. I can think of few writers who can pull literary shenanigans like KV, and give curmudgeons a good name.
Damn! I so wanted to meet him at the media event the 27th, to ask him probably some inane question. I wanted to be in the same room with him, if only to snap a photo and say “thank you.”
So it goes.
Damn.
I haven’t been this upset since Stanley Kubrick died.
I’ll have a martini for breakfast tomorrow to remember Kurt.
My dad gave me Breakfast of Champions to read when I was 11. A few pages in and it was already my favorite book. I read a lot more of his writing later in life, but was never as affected by anything as much as BOC. The sheer dreariness and absurdity of it all, and the low-rent world it evoked, just hit me on some profound level, even back then. I’ve re-read it two or three times since. I also thought the movie with Bruce Willis was pretty good, despite getting bad reviews.
Total ditto.
Well, there’s no logical way he lived as long as he did.
Kurt is up in heaven now.
I met Vonnequt at a book signing. I had an old copy of If magazine that had 2BR02B in it written by Vonnequt (not Kilgore Trout). He looked at it and said “amazing!”. I have always regretted not saying “No, If”. Anyways I have a signed copy of that somewhere in my mother’s house.
There’s another thread in MPSIMS , where my post here is explained :
Kurt is up in Heaven now.
I’m just so happy he made it 84 years. There was absolutely no reason he should have.
Bravo!