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12th April 2007, 7:12am
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#1 | | Fattly Drawn Boy SuperMod
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| Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6547399.stm
Vonnegut was one of the world's good guys. Eighty-four though, not too bad.
I used to be obsessed with his books a few years ago.
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12th April 2007, 7:56am
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#2 | | I come from the gutter
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
I loved his stuff as well. I actually called myself Kilgore Trout on here for a while. | 
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12th April 2007, 8:48am
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#3 | | Experimental stooge
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
No more need to sue the tobacco companies then Kurt old boy.
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12th April 2007, 8:51am
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#4 | | Fattly Drawn Boy SuperMod
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
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Originally Posted by endless psych  No more need to sue the tobacco companies then Kurt old boy. | That was a joke. He wasn't really going to sue the tobacco companies. Quote:
"I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was twelve or fourteen. So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them. And do you know why?"
"Lung cancer?" I offer.
"No. No. Because I'm eighty-three years old. The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me. Instead, their cigarettes didn't work. Now I'm forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick and, up until recently, 'Colon.'"....
| Edit: I'm not so sharp this morning. I realise now that this is clearly what you were getting at. I.e. he's dead now.
Sorry.
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12th April 2007, 11:31am
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#5 | | Backwoods Motherfuckery
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
Star of 80's comedy 'Back to School'. | |
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12th April 2007, 12:00pm
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#6 | | Better not to err
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
America kills another hero. | |
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12th April 2007, 5:18pm
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#7 | | Registered User
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
Rip. 
Time to download me some e-books in remembrance. | |
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12th April 2007, 6:04pm
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#8 | | Dirk Gently
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
Do the latest livejournal pictures thing and they are largely him...musta been a lovely guy.
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12th April 2007, 7:37pm
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#9 | | Fattly Drawn Boy SuperMod
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
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Originally Posted by Seph Do the latest livejournal pictures thing and they are largely him...musta been a lovely guy. | Have you never read any Vonnegut? I would highly recommend his stuff, especially "Cat's Cradle" (I must've read this one about 20 times), "Bluebeard", "Galapagos" and "Timequake" (his "autobiography", but, in typical Vonnegut style, it's a the outlines of fact, coloured in with fiction and written as if it was ten years later than when it actually was written). "Slaughterhouse-5" is his breakthrough work, it's really good but it's not his best (in my opinion). I did my Higher English RPR on Slaughterhouse-5.....got me an A, cheers Kurt!
He's not an earthshattering genius (but a genius nonetheless), his books are usually short, simple and intentionally obvious allegories but he has a humanity and charm that you'll struggle to find matched in any contemporary writer. He writes like a man who wants to hate humanity but he's just too nice not to see the good in everyone.
He'll be missed.
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12th April 2007, 8:44pm
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#10 | | Dirk Gently
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
I've never read his stuff, no.
I'm a sucker for hype though and you'll find me in a bookshop near you! soon.
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10th May 2007, 6:27pm
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#11 | | Dirk Gently
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| Re: Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.
Read his play 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June!' and really enjoyed it.
Will be looking out for more stuff.
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