Vonnegut

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Vonnegut leaves us: he used to say that the only way to face modern reality is "with humour and rage". That perhaps is all that there is to say of this age.

Could you be kind enough to enlighten me about who he is?

Look at google and today's newspapers.

I read pretty much everything he wrote. Wow. Dead.One of the very few who caught my attention. Thanks for letting me know. Heard it first on wrong planet. Time to pull out that old paperback and visit Yossarian.

I have in my reading agenda "Catch22" by Heller. It's before me, but the agenda is thick and the time not much.

Wow I didn't even hear about it until now .

I haven't been following the news the past couple days. The man had a wicked sense of humor and a biting wit. He has secured his place in history as one of the greatest American writers and one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

He was able to make us laugh while at the same time elevating our social consciousness, and being able to do these at the same time is a rare gift. As humorist and commentator he is in a league with Mark Twain and Voltaire, and few others.

I found his books when I was in my early 20's, and K.V. was a big influence on me.

K.V was an American POW in German hands when the allies firebombed Dresden in February !945 destroying the city. He was in a slaughterhouse depot and among the seven Americans who survived the bombing. "Slaughterhouse 5" was based on his experience in Dresden.

About.com said that Vonnegut has become unstuck in time. More like unstuck in space/time, but not trapped on a chronosynclastic infundibulum.

Losing Vonnegut is quite a blow. It's a bad enough world to begin with. I've been keeping Sirens of Titans with me since 1969 - what a thing to read right after the assassinations of 1968. I don't change much, but Sirens of Titans has grown every time I read it.

He said that we should react to the world with humour and rage (paraphrase).

What should we do now? Try to do something of what Vonnegut did?

Writersamanac is a very good site. Thank you again.

He was twenty-four years older than me and much younger.

This two prong attach always caught me off guard. The laughs were real and deep. I learned to laugh at horror, because it was funny.

he died?

oh crap... there goes a lot of books i would have read....

never got to meet him. he came to my highschool for a book signing (apparently) a year before i ever started reading his stuff

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