Kurt Vonnegut - R.I.P.

[Erik]

NYT.com - BOOKS | April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture's Novelist, Dies

Kurt Vonnegut's dark comic talent and urgent moral vision caught the temper of his times. He was 84.

 

[Olaf]

good guy.
good writer.
84 was a ripe age.

R.I.P. Vonnegut

'So it goes' :(

 

[Brother Schenker]

Now he knows the answers.

 

[Paul Sempschi]

I read somewhere that he received brain damage from a fall in his place in Manhattan and was in the hospital over it. So I guess it wasnt old age entirely. A wonderful writer. Although since his output had lessened significantly since the early 90's, we were able to get used to his silence. We'll miss him.

 

[place holder]

what a year... robert anton wilson.. now kurt.. damn.
he will be missed dearly.

 

[Bukfan]

Brain damage? - Damn! What a shame. Great writer, I love his books...

 

[hoochmonkey9]

one of the first writers I became obsessive about as a teenager.
he'll be missed.

 

[roni]

Have you seen the movie 'Breakfast of Champions' after his novel?
Starring Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte.
Good movie, when in a personal crizis and slightly drunk. Surrealistic, sarcastic, funny, serious...
(and the character of Kilgore Trout is done so much Bukowski-like in a way...)

 

[HenryChinaski]

yeah its a good movie. kurt makes a cameo in the scene where they're filming the commercial.

rip mr. vonnegut

 

[Ninjerk]

Too bad. I think he wanted cigarettes to kill him.

 

[zanzinger]

rip

listen:
vonnegut is one of my favorites

 

[LickTheStar]

Man its been a year already... Crazy. Any news on that new book there? Sounds interesting, but don't have the time to read it now.

 

[zanzinger]

i actually paged thru it in the bookstore yesterday.
it has an interesting letter he wrote to his family about being a pow.

 

[CarversDog]

I have a preview edition; mostly previously published anti-war pieces, including the famous Dresden bombing essay. Good intro by his son. Yes, it was brain damage from a fall, as his son points out, that "scrambled his brains" and ultimately led to his demise.