R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut

[roberto73]

Sad day, folks. Here's the story:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/book....ap/index.html

For fans, in memoriam, which is your favorite Vonnegut book? Breakfast of Champions gets my vote.

[bballarl]

Just for future reference, any thread beginning with "It's raining" means someone has died. This is usually followed by a somewhat clever description of the person, so it isn't necessarily obvious who has died at first.

[bballarl]

Meaning that there is already a thread on this.

[roberto73]

Yeah, I figured that out after the fact. I jumped on it without checking. Apologies.

[kroqken]

Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven and Ronald Reagan is in a place worse than hell.

[bballarl]

Yeah, I figured that out after the fact. I jumped on it without checking. Apologies.

I wasn't flaming you. I was just saying.

[meyouseek]

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
-Kurt Vonnegut

[xbnmx]

My favorite fiction author =( Cat's Cradle was my favorite.

[ThomThom]

Slaughterhouse Five

[jackstraw94086]

Cat's Cradle is the correct answer.

Slapstick is up there too. Definitely his wackiest.

[TomAz]

see the cat? see the cradle?

[kroqken]

Do they make a Kurt Vonnegut for Dummies book? Or maybe Cliff Notes or Spark Notes for any of his work?

[amyzzz]

I always thought he was a pretty easy read.

[kroqken]

I was actually joking in my last post, he is an easier read than James Joyce, for example.

[amyzzz]

Yeah, I haven't really tackled much James Joyce yet, just A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and that one book of short stories.

[kroqken]

The one book I could never stomach was Silas Marner, I was supposed to read it in high school and found it incredibly unbearable.