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Schyma
04-13-2007, 01:01 AM
Discuss what a ****ing badass this man was.

R.I.P.

Kurt Vonnegut
Cocaine
04-13-2007, 01:08 AM
So it goes...

Poo-tee-weet
spitfirejunky
04-13-2007, 01:11 AM
Those of you who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
thedeadwalk!
04-13-2007, 01:37 AM
I've only read Slaughterhouse 5; didn't really care for it. The clip of him on The Daily Show was funny, though.

Those of you who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
I just had the hardest quiet laugh to myself.
Captain Rapeface
04-13-2007, 03:13 AM
Vonnegut had a really neat and humorous way of saying really scary and daunting things. RIP
Captain Rapeface
04-13-2007, 03:31 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5T8SWS84Q

wow lol
EinzingerIsGod
04-13-2007, 05:45 AM
Cat's Cradle was a favorite of mine. This man was one of the true genius writers of the 20th century. He'll be missed.
cobert
04-13-2007, 03:16 PM
So it goes...

My friend said this when he died and i ROFLed then felt kind of bad.

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of my favorite books.
Kage
04-13-2007, 03:17 PM
I didn't like Slaughterhouse 5 as much as Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, and many of his other novels.

Still, SH-5 is one of the few good books I read in high school.
Cocaine
04-13-2007, 04:24 PM
Anyone read any of his short stories? I'm looking for something to read tonight, but don't feel like tackling Dostoevsky.
italic zero
04-13-2007, 04:34 PM
I've read so many of his books I can't even remotely keep them straight, but I've read Welcome to Monkey House and Bagombo Snuff Box and I'm pretty sure they're good like everything else he wrote.
Kithkin
04-13-2007, 04:49 PM
Do you know what a Humanist is? I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that functionless capacity. We Humanists try to behave well without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.

We had a memorial services for Isaac a few years back, and at one point I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could have said to a group of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in Heaven now." That's my favorite joke.

Kurt V J
thomas is fast
04-13-2007, 05:51 PM
Slaughterhouse 5 was good.

I read one of his short stories about taking equality as far as it could go. I forgot what it was called though...
spitfirejunky
04-15-2007, 10:50 PM
Slaughterhouse 5 was good.

I read one of his short stories about taking equality as far as it could go. I forgot what it was called though...

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html
thedeadwalk!
04-16-2007, 01:02 AM
Wow, that story was very stupid.
Ghostfire3
04-16-2007, 07:45 AM
Anyone read any of his short stories? I'm looking for something to read tonight, but don't feel like tackling Dostoevsky.

I'm going to start Welcome to the Monkey House which is a collection of his short stories. I've heard good things.
Volumnius Flush
04-16-2007, 11:28 AM
Who is he? I remember him on Jon Stewart.
cobert
04-16-2007, 03:24 PM
He's a great author.