RIP Kurt Vonnegut
Like him or hate him, the guy did something to literature that had not been done before.
NY Times Obituary
NY Times Obituary
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Read him in my teens. Stimulated the imagination. He was a WWII vet/POW too. That ought to silence the folks that will put him down but never read anything by him. 0 -
I remember his brief appearance in "Back to School" with Rodney Dangerfield. He was a fine writer and will be missed. 0 -
Wow. I can't believe he is dead.
I never particularly cared for his type of writing, but he was very talented nonetheless and I understand he was a decent fellow as well.0 -
Slaughterhouse-Five is the only one of his works that I've read... It was outside the box for sure!!! 0 -
When I was a high school and college student read everything of his I could get my hands on. Yes he was " out of the box" but he made you think. Influential on what I thought/think about government,war, people and women!. He was one of a kind. 0 -
We read one of his stories in a college English class.
The guy went to a junkyard. Here was the bumper from a '52 Chrysler. Over there was a kid's swingset, all taken apart and in a pile. Over in this corner of the junkyard was a trout stream. It was a 93 foot trout stream, cut into 8 pieces, of ten feet each. Then there was a 7 foot piece and a 6 foot piece. The sections of the trout stream were stacked up, with the short sections on top. In each section of the trout stream, you could see the sand and gravel of the bottom, and you had the running water, about 5 inches deep. In four or five of the sections, you could see the trout swimming.
Kurt was not like the other boys, but I enjoyed that story.
My brother had one of his books, "Happy Birthday Wanda June." My brother loved that book. I read about five pages of it, it made my head swim and I had to put it down.
I think it helped you to understand Kurt if you were high on drugs.0
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