Just heard news that Kurt Vonnegut died
 

fuck.
fuck fuck fuck.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/bo...-vonnegut.html

Sad indeed.....what a voice.

i am so saddened by this news... i can't believe it. and it wasn't even from lung cancer

How is this sad - aside from him having to live for 84 years?

I am sad. Shocked, no. But very sad, especially when I think about all of the people I know who also love his writing.

well, i owe the man some brilliant hours of bookish joy and for that he has my eternal gratitude and affection.

at 84 he was very lucid, and an outspoken and harsh critic of u.s. foreign policy. he died because he fell & suffered brain injuries-- it wasn't like he just faded away. he could have been around a bit longer.

so it's sad for me. sort of like a grandfather going-- i do love books and the people who write them.

I have yet to read any of his works. But I am sadden when a literary figure who has influenced the literary world dies. May his soul rest in peace.

mumbles something..

(from the posted article )

His last book concludes with a poem written by Mr. 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.



Heartbreaking loss . His writing is treasured .

*_____*

oh no! For some reason I never expected Vonnegut to die- He seemed to a grasp beyond... but alas his mortality.

you know whats really... weird...

earlier today i was googling that "everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" quote.

wow... r.i.p.

very sad news, a sad day.

this is sad. he's my favourite writer ever. I read all of his book and he's kind of a guru for me.
I suggest, to remember him:
Sirens of Titan
Galapagos
Player Piano
TimeQuake.


He thought me really very much.
After reading galapagos me and some friends of mine put up a musical show based on the novel.
He died for brain injuries due to a domestic accident. I wonder what happened... A ridiculous death would greatly fit in his character.
He would laugh.

I heard about it this morning early, when I was taking care of Vaughn....

I'd say my favorite two of his books are Galapagos and Sirens of Titan, loved the wit and satirical style he embodied.

Well, on the bright side, today is David Letterman's birthday.

I never liked his stuff enough to read it on my own, but the stuff they made us read in school was okay and should be read by anyone with half a brain. They don't make writers like him anymore.

I will continue to eat my Breakfast of Champions in his honor.

:(

This is the worst expected news. It was only a matter of time, but FUCK. My surrogate father is gone. The only hero I have ever had. I am severely sad about this. We have lost an american genius, a man who in these times we need more than ever.
Here is a link to an intervuiew he did in 2005 with PBS' show NOW

I almost feel more bad for you than him...


right now he's about to start getting it on with the next batch of astral virgins. the first 99 are surely too sore to continue.

In 50 years I predict his work will be studied like Mark Twain is.
a true american original.
Now they are all dead. Bukowski, Vonnegut, Asimov, Hunter Thompson
all my favorite writers are dead. fuck I feel old.
from the NY Times Obit

He also shared with Twain a profound pessimism. “Mark Twain,” Mr. Vonnegut wrote in his 1991 book, “Fates Worse Than Death” “finally stopped laughing at his own agony and that of those around him. He denounced life on this planet as a crock. He died.”