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RIP Kurt Vonnegut 11/11/1922 – 04/11/2007
84 years oldhttp://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/ … nnegut.php
NBC fires Don Imus from simulcast for saying Nappy Headed Hoes
And most importantly, did’s J’s friend Kurt Fedora fair well after his accident last week? is his name really Fedora cause on Martin and Me it sures sounds like farrar?
I really wish you wouldn’t have clumped this all into one.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite writers of all time. Hi Ho
"girl " wrote:I really wish you wouldn’t have clumped this all into one.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite writers of all time. Hi Ho
Yeah, it’s an upsetting day. I actually called my brother at 4 am in the morning to tell him about it, waking him up. He understood… he probably liked Vonnegut even moreso then me.
Quote:I really wish you wouldn’t have clumped this all into one. SadI can fragment it into 3 threads if you want?
I’m shocked too. I am reading slaughterhouse 5 now, though I’ve been on a break from it for some time. I read one of his other books.I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read any of Kurt Vonnegut’s work
RIP.Plus speedy recovery to Kurt Fedora.
I find it weird that none of the obits/retrospectives I’ve read about Vonnegut mention _Galapagos_, which is the only novel of his I really liked. I even read it twice. None of the real Vonnegut I fans I’ve known like it at all, though, for some reason. It’s a really original book.
He moved to Northampton for a while, right around the time I moved out of there, and was pretty frail-looking even back then. If he was suffering, at least he’s at peace now.
Quote:Galapagos_, which is the only novel of his I really liked.I’ll have to read that one. Timequake, there are some nice tales.
"Lucrife " wrote:I go to the same medical center (Blue Hills Medical Center) where Mark Vonnegut works
Mark’s book is a very, very interesting read.
"The Eden Express- A Personal Memoir Of Schizophrenia"
"King Tubby " wrote:I find it weird that none of the obits/retrospectives I’ve read about Vonnegut mention _Galapagos_, which is the only novel of his I really liked. I even read it twice. None of the real Vonnegut I fans I’ve known like it at all, though, for some reason. It’s a really original book.He moved to Northampton for a while, right around the time I moved out of there, and was pretty frail-looking even back then. If he was suffering, at least he’s at peace now.
I think that was the first book I read by him. I liked it a lot. Kurt’s books all sort of bleed into one for me- all though his characters are quite memorable, they are incidental to the main character- Kurt’s "voice" I think. He really has a one of a kind voice.
He actually taught a class at Smith… his grandchildren live out in Noho too. I remember I used to go to a cafe in Noho called "Fire and Water" a lot in the past- they used to do poetry nights and the like- and I went there pretty regularly on Wednesday. The ONE time something came up , and I couldnt make it, is the day Kurt evidently was there. I really regret not having been there that day.
I’ve recently discovered his collected works of non-fiction essays, which are just as entertaining (And probably more insightful into Kurt as a person). They are very interesting. One book is actually called "Wampeter’s, Foma & Granfalloons"… which of course is self-explanatory
Quote:I go to the same medical center (Blue Hills Medical Center) where Mark Vonnegut works SmileyYeah, I read a bit about him in a Vonnegut book. He lost his mind in the 60’s and wrote his own book about it, and eventually became some a doctor in Milton, Mass. after graduating from Harvard.
In Timequake, Kurt points to a time when his alter ego, Kilgore Trout, dies on labor day in 2001, at the age of 84. I guess he wrote himself into it.
Quote:and im happy about the bumping of don imus!Oh, I don’t care about that. I haven’t even watched it since 2000……
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