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royalfan5
4/11/2007, 11:42 PM
http://charlotte.com/364/story/82126.html

Age 84. He is certainly one of the greatest novelists of the 20th Century. So it goes.
GottaHavePride
4/11/2007, 11:57 PM
Crap.

Does this mean the prices on his books are going to get even higher?
royalfan5
4/11/2007, 11:58 PM
Crap.

Does this mean the prices on his books are going to get even higher?
Good thing I already have most of them. Although I keep losing copies of Slaughterhouse 5.
yermom
4/12/2007, 12:00 AM
he was still alive??
proud gonzo
4/12/2007, 12:02 AM
well ****
GottaHavePride
4/12/2007, 12:13 AM
I never have gotten around to buying a copy of Sirens of Titan.
Frozen Sooner
4/12/2007, 12:20 AM
well ****

Actually, I think you mean *.
RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!
4/12/2007, 12:23 AM
He wrote "Harrison Bergeron"...nuff said.
Rhino
4/12/2007, 12:24 AM
You totally stole mjcpr's thunder.
KABOOKIE
4/12/2007, 12:25 AM
Thorton Melon is sad.
King Crimson
4/12/2007, 01:13 AM
RIP Kilgore Trout.
rufnek05
4/12/2007, 01:39 AM
i have only read Slaughterhouse-five, but i would like to read some of this other work, any suggestions?
Frozen Sooner
4/12/2007, 01:45 AM
Yep.

Go to the bookstore and buy all of them. :)

I really liked Galapagos.
Viking Kitten
4/12/2007, 01:46 AM
The funniest scene in the movie "Back to School" was when he played himself, hired by Rodney Dangerfield to write an essay on himself for a college class. Then Sally Kellerman as the professor flunked Rodney Dangerfield and chastised him for cheating, saying whoever wrote the essay obviously didn't know the first thing about Vonnegut. Heh.

Dude was a hero around our house while I was growing up.
Sooner in Tampa
4/12/2007, 05:16 AM
You totally stole mjcpr's thunder.That's right...Dammit people, Pat is passer of the dead people news :mad:
Howzit
4/12/2007, 05:43 AM
Goodbye Blue Monday!

RIP Mr. Vonnegut.
crawfish
4/12/2007, 07:58 AM
RIP Kilgore Trout.

Philip Jose Farmer is still alive. :)

Only one good way to end this thread:


Po-tweet!
sanantoniosooner
4/12/2007, 08:02 AM
RIP Kilgore Trout.
Actually he posts on a KSU board.
VeeJay
4/12/2007, 08:04 AM
Last week we were driving by a cemetery and my seven year old daughter says, "There's dead people, yo."
crawfish
4/12/2007, 08:06 AM
PO-TWEET!!!

dangit. :mad:
sanantoniosooner
4/12/2007, 08:06 AM
Last week we were driving by a cemetery and my seven year old daughter says, "There's dead people, yo."
Did you tell the nappy headed ho to show some respect?
Okla-homey
4/12/2007, 08:26 AM
paper ignites at 451F.

just saying
VeeJay
4/12/2007, 08:34 AM
SAS - careful or you'll get Imussed. ;)
OklahomaTuba
4/12/2007, 08:35 AM
Now he can see those terrorists he loved and lauded so much.
Mjcpr
4/12/2007, 08:36 AM
You totally stole mjcpr's thunder.

Right. We are going to have to get this thing under control, people.

Nobody steps on Homey's toes, I'd like the same courtesy please.
C&CDean
4/12/2007, 08:40 AM
Right. We are going to have to get this thing under control, people.

Nobody steps on Homey's toes, I'd like the same courtesy please.

Uh, do you think that may be because Homey is articulate, intelligent, suave, debonaire, AND relevant? HMM?
sanantoniosooner
4/12/2007, 08:44 AM
And likes American Idol.

Don't forget that Dean.
Mjcpr
4/12/2007, 08:54 AM
Uh, do you think that may be because Homey is articulate, intelligent, suave, debonaire, AND relevant? HMM?

I guess that'd make you Oscar then?

:D
Okla-homey
4/12/2007, 09:33 AM
Uh, do you think that may be because Homey is articulate, intelligent, suave, debonaire, AND relevant? HMM?

Please leave me out of this. And you forgot "handsome."
skycat
4/12/2007, 09:58 AM
i have only read Slaughterhouse-five, but i would like to read some of this other work, any suggestions?

I'd go with Cat's Cradle next. One of my top 5 favorite books.
Oldnslo
4/12/2007, 09:58 AM
...there they go.

:(
TUSooner
4/12/2007, 10:08 AM
Now he can see those terrorists he loved and lauded so much.
WTF? Please explain. No. Please don't. I'd hate to see 84 years of life and thought reduced to a crudely drawn stick figure.

I loved Vonnegut's simplicity, skepticism, and humor when I was in high school. I read Breakfast of Champions last winter and laughed again, even though the simplicity seemed overly simple then. So it goes. (sorry)
Howzit
4/12/2007, 10:12 AM
WTF? Please explain. No. Please don't. I'd hate to see 84 years of life and thought reduced to a crudely drawn stick figure.

I loved Vonnegut's simplicity, skepticism, and humor when I was in high school. I read Breakfast of Champions last winter and laughed again, even though the simplicity seemed overly simple then. So it goes. (sorry)

If by "WTF? Please explain. No. Please don't. I'd hate to see 84 years of life and thought reduced to a crudely drawn stick figure." you mean "STFU" I agree.

BOC was my favorite Vonnegut.
Jeopardude
4/12/2007, 10:21 AM
i have only read Slaughterhouse-five, but i would like to read some of this other work, any suggestions?

Cat's Cradle is a great one. I also like some of the essays in Palm Sunday.
royalfan5
4/12/2007, 10:27 AM
paper ignites at 451F.

just saying
Ray Bradbury isn't dead though.
NormanPride
4/12/2007, 10:31 AM
We need more surrealistic sci-fi nowadays.
King Crimson
4/12/2007, 11:19 AM
Now he can see those terrorists he loved and lauded so much.

yeah, KV has no right to make any comment about war or armed conflict.....after digging corpses out of the rubble at Dresden as a POW in WWII.

his novels lack the requisite oblique references to newsmax.com to appeal to Tuba Taste....and are therefore "bad art" as Stalin would say. Stalin and Tuba have very similar flexibility in their attitudes toward art. if it does not support the Authoritarian state, it's bad.
RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!
4/12/2007, 11:33 AM
yeah, KV has no right to make any comment about war or armed conflict.....after digging corpses out of the rubble at Dresden as a POW in WWII.

his novels lack the requisite oblique references to newsmax.com to appeal to Tuba Taste....and are therefore "bad art" as Stalin would say. Stalin and Tuba have very similar flexibility in their attitudes toward art. if it does not support the Authoritarian state, it's bad.Simply Brilliant!
King Crimson
4/12/2007, 11:38 AM
like fish to bait...
RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!
4/12/2007, 11:46 AM
like fish to bait...I almost think you believe that stuff.
Dio
4/12/2007, 05:08 PM
The funniest scene in the movie "Back to School" was when he played himself, hired by Rodney Dangerfield to write an essay on himself for a college class. Then Sally Kellerman as the professor flunked Rodney Dangerfield and chastised him for cheating, saying whoever wrote the essay obviously didn't know the first thing about Vonnegut. Heh.

Dude was a hero around our house while I was growing up.

Dangerfield on the phone with Vonnegut afterwards: "**** me? Do you read lips? **** YOU!"

(edited to delete my confusion of writers whose last names began with "V")
Rogue
4/12/2007, 07:55 PM
He was what I call a 'sneaky-satirist.' The kind that can have you laugh at some great twist of words and then immediately feel like it was inappropriate to laugh at something so dark. I still feel indebted to my friend that first turned me on to Vonnegut.