RIP Kurt Vonnegut

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1. Tag says:

   04/12/2007 at 1:54 am

   I saw this a little while ago on the MSNBC site, and all I can say is:

   What a fucking bummer.

   Vonnegut, him I’ll mourn.
2. Ben McCool says:

   04/12/2007 at 3:40 am

   Cheerio, Kurt. You were one of the very, very best.
3. Scott Chantler says:

   04/12/2007 at 9:18 am

   One of my heroes. His books are like a life raft for the disaffected.

   Damn.
4. Jonathan says:

   04/12/2007 at 9:31 am

   P.S. as of 9:02am EDT Slaughterhouse-Five was up to #56 on Amazon’s top sellers. I guess that Courtney Cox in that show Dirt was right: “nothing sells like death.”
5. david says:

   04/12/2007 at 10:04 am

   I love Vonnegut. He was one of the few authors my high school friends and I considered “cool”. We used to pass around his novels.
6. Jon B. Cooke says:

   04/12/2007 at 10:32 am

   From the NYT News Service obit:

   “[Kurt Vonnegut] was also accused of repeating himself, of recycling themes and characters. Some readers found his work incoherent. His harshest critics called him no more than a comic book philosopher, a purveyor of empty aphorisms.”

   Sigh. And so it goes…

   Jon

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