nickieee (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

vonnegut lives on.

reverendjimbob (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Ahh... The beauty of opinions.

slothafur (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Kilgore Trout lives. Fumaté Pall Malls!

bbproductionsLA (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I saw him in person at too young of an age...

andypandapanda (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

god bless you mr. vonnegut. you are a national treasure. we saw your sweet and tender soul through your words and we were changed. the world is a sadder place today without you in it.

jodhpurs (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Vonnegut's has usually disparaged his own work. Don't let that fool you. He was aan astoundingly rhythmic and lyrical and clear and ironic and observant and biting and laugh-out-loud funny writer from, I would say, Mother Night or The Sirens of Titan onward, writing prose as fluent as a freshwater stream. And hios nonfiction is equal to any New Journalism around. Check out his article, IN A MANNER THAT MUST SHAME GOD HIMSELF, or else, EXCELSIOR! WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON!

davyjaysparrow (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Funny how we're managing to melt the glaciers, but we can't seem to stop the wars...

bewlaybrutha (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

not so

Bramicus (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

In late 1968 or early 1969, while Vonnegut was writing "Slaughterhouse Five," I was attending the University of Michigan when he arrived as a "Writer in Residence." He got bored and left after a week, but before he left he said, "What I'm working on now will be very good. Everything [I write] after that will be bullshit." And he was absolutely right.So it goes.

tokyocooney (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Wow!