RIP, Kurt Vonnegut
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:03 pm
I haven't logged on in a while, but I needed a support group after hearing that Vonnegut died yesterday. He was one of my two favorite authors (with Donaldson), and I always felt very sympathetic towards him.
Congratulations on making it 84 years without killing yourself, Kurt.
I'm just going to ramble on a little bit, now.
I first read one of his books (Galapagos) when I was a high school senior, because my mother had checked it out of the library. (I wonder why she did. She wasn't a fan, and it wasn't a murder mystery.) It was interesting, but I didn't get hooked until I'd read a couple more of his books, probably Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five. I went to college, and discovered that their library had pretty much every novel he'd written, so in the next few months I read everything they had.
His books weren't very similar to SRD's. Very concise, non-descriptive, and funny. Tragic elements are common to both, though. A recurring theme of Vonnegut's work is: Everyone Dies. (Usually due to some bizarre cataclysm.)
So it goes.
Congratulations on making it 84 years without killing yourself, Kurt.
I'm just going to ramble on a little bit, now.
I first read one of his books (Galapagos) when I was a high school senior, because my mother had checked it out of the library. (I wonder why she did. She wasn't a fan, and it wasn't a murder mystery.) It was interesting, but I didn't get hooked until I'd read a couple more of his books, probably Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five. I went to college, and discovered that their library had pretty much every novel he'd written, so in the next few months I read everything they had.
His books weren't very similar to SRD's. Very concise, non-descriptive, and funny. Tragic elements are common to both, though. A recurring theme of Vonnegut's work is: Everyone Dies. (Usually due to some bizarre cataclysm.)
So it goes.
Pity it wasn't under better circumstances.