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Apr. 12th, 2007 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
toxic_cornI found out today that Kurt Vonnegut died.
When I was seventeen, I went through this phase where I had to read everything Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Dead-eye Dick, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, and Timequake just to name a few. He was a great writer who wrote about flawed characters, much like another favorite author of mine, Flannery O'Connor (when I found out he was a fan of hers too, I felt bizarrely proud). I loved his writing and he became one of my heroes. My AP English teacher always asked me what I was reading and she'd often remark without much surprise, "Oh, another Vonnegut."
It's about time I started re-reading them. If you haven't read him before, you should pick up a copy of Slaughter-house Five when you can. You might have to wait awhile because the death of an artist usually inspires people to seek out their work out of curiosity for what we'll all be missing now.
When I was seventeen, I went through this phase where I had to read everything Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Dead-eye Dick, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, and Timequake just to name a few. He was a great writer who wrote about flawed characters, much like another favorite author of mine, Flannery O'Connor (when I found out he was a fan of hers too, I felt bizarrely proud). I loved his writing and he became one of my heroes. My AP English teacher always asked me what I was reading and she'd often remark without much surprise, "Oh, another Vonnegut."
It's about time I started re-reading them. If you haven't read him before, you should pick up a copy of Slaughter-house Five when you can. You might have to wait awhile because the death of an artist usually inspires people to seek out their work out of curiosity for what we'll all be missing now.
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Date: 2007-04-13 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-13 02:20 pm (UTC)Then last April I read A Man Without A Country and have been expecting this day ever since - that was a very good book, but seemed very much to be him saying good-bye to all his readers. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.
Also, I'm not generally a fan of Douglas Brinkley, but his recent essay on Vonnegut was really good: http://www.bordersmedia.com/features/pages/vonnegut_brinkley.asp