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Old 04-12-2007, 01:04 AM
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Unhappy Vonnegut dies at 84

Guys. I just read that Kurt Vonnegut has died.

Source, if you want one: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/4707722.html

I'm a bit heartbroken over here.
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noooo!!!

damn.

i was going to post this too.

sad, sad times.
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nooooo.



r.i.p.

xo

fuck. I was going to use something he wrote as a signature a while back but I didn't, I guess now's the time.
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Extremely sad news, he was one of my all time favourite writers.
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Oh no.

That's really a shame.
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I was just told at a friend's house tonight. This is so sad. I've read some of his other work, and am currently reading Slaughterhouse 5. So. Gutted. 84 is a good life though.

So it goes.
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I went to a lecture by Vonnegut when I was about 15 and I still remember huge chunks of it. I was too young to drive, but I ordered my older friends to take me. Everyone left the lecture floating on tiptoes and full of a happy, slightly heartbroken love of humanity.

He may not be the best writer in the world but like Woody Allen he really built a whole world out of his sensitivity and humor. When you read him, you really GOT that there was someone who believed we were supposed to be free of all the pain, humorlessness and UNCHARITY of this world. He didn't take it on the chin, he took it up the ass, and made you laugh about it, even if you thought you might die from the pure godforsaken awfulness of what you were laughing about.

It's slightly depressing that he didn't live to see Bush leave office, since he hated him so much, but really--who cares? Vonnegut's life is a monument to humanists everywhere.

RIP Vonnegut, you touched my life.
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so it goes

that's two kurts dead. let's kill this cunt next

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Unhappy

I was coming into work and someone across the subway car was reading the NYT, and I saw it on the front page. I had no idea, I hadn't turned on the TV before I left (although someone I work with said it wasn't on the TV news, which is odd, because he lived and died here).

I actually met him at a wedding, but that was about six months before I disovered his work. I fell in love with Slaugherhouse Five, and my Dad was all, "You know, he was at that wedding," (same thing happened around the same time when I fell in love with On The Waterfront - "You know, the director was at that wedding").

I remember a high school English teacher advising that if you wanted to see the greatest living American author, you had but to check the floors of the bars in the Hamptons. No more. And so it goes (sorry, I just had to).
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I'm heartbroken. He was one of my favorite writers. Slaughterhouse five and breakfast of champions inspired me R.I.P
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I saw it and was pretty sad, although 84 is a good age to live to. I've loved everything I read by him. To celebrate his life i might order what I haven't read off amazon.
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did anyone see the daily show tribute?
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no, i missed it. can anyone post it up?
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No, but thank you for letting us know about it. In searching the internet for it I came upon this on youtube, which is an old daily show interview with Vonnegut that I mentioned in some other thread. For those that haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwPbMt5Qx7I

I'll definately post the daily show tribute if I find it.
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did anyone see the daily show tribute?
I did. I noticed jon slipped a "so it goes" in right before a commercial too.

I know 84 years is a good long life, but I'll be damned if it still didn't bring tears to my eyes when I found out he was dead. He was still as sharp and as funny as ever. I love it when jon stewart is really laughing, not just a polite giggle. You can tell kurt really made him laugh.
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I was going to make a thread about this but I see someone already did.

He was and still is my favorite author, and a hero of mine, since I was 12.

I cried when I found out, because he is such an inspiration to our corrupt society.

There will never be another Vonnegut.

Seriously, if you havn't read any of his novels, poetry, short stories, ect, please do. You won't regret it.
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I have a friend who is a book scout and he said that Powell's main store was almost completely sold out of all Vonnegut titles, because there was a rush after his death was announced. Somehow that bit of news equally amused and disgusted me. I guess it's better late than never for people to discover him, but still...
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I actually needed something to read the other day, and I was going to re-read Slaughterhouse Five, only to discover that I don't seem to have a copy. I could swear I did. And I was kind of pleased that I was so sure about which one was actually my favorite, because we have basically a shelf of his stuff. And then it wasn't there! I didn't take a completly thorough look behind the bookcase yet. I'll be embarrased if I have to buy it again - I'll feel like I have to explain that I have already read it. Although I bet part of the run on his books is people who read something years ago and now want to re-read it.
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