rip kurt vonnegut (1 Viewer)

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i just read slaughterhouse 5 for the first time there recently.
it's a pity.

 

[Umfufu]

THREE threads.
Hwah ha ha haaaaa!!!


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[Bellatrix]

Re: So it goes...

Slaughterhouse 5 is an amazing book.

Although, for the life of me, I can't remember a thing about it.

 

[snakybus]

Kurt is with God now.

(Kurt fans will get this)

 

[theoootini]

Re: So it goes...

Slaughterhouse 5 is an amazing book.

Although, for the life of me, I can't remember a thing about it.

I think S5 is over-rated. Sirens of Titan is my favourite of his i think.

 

[theinvisiblerep]

My signature is a quote of his.

As a little bit of trivia, he wrote 'Welcome to the Monkey House', which the Dandy Warhols used as a title to a shit album they produced.

But the book (of short stories) is still brilliant.

 

[shitepipe]

Re: So it goes...

love timequake. bluebeard. s5. etc etc

RIP

 

[egg_]

As I said in one of the other threads
Feels like an old buddy I haven't seen in years has died

 

[trensmat]

THREE threads.
Hwah ha ha haaaaa!!!


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ha....didnt see the others....
anyway, he deserves at least 3

 

[Jackson.Bollock]

Re: So it goes...

His writing will 'live on' which is the important thing.

 

[kings lead hat]

Welcome to the Monkey House

my favourite book ever.............
and hes my favourite author

...only fiction ill read

 

[P. Littbarski]

thats shit news...he was one of the best writers of the 20th Century, if not ever.

so it goes

 

[Jackson.Bollock]

thats shit news...he was one of the best writers of the 20th Century, if not ever.

so it goes

Er, he was eighty-five and his writing is *still* with us...so it's not THAT much of a loss.

"And so it goes..." Martin Amis seems very fond of this Vonnegutism.

 

[egg_]

Er, he was eighty-five and his writing is *still* with us...so it's not THAT much of a loss.

"And so it goes..." Martin Amis seems very fond of this Vonnegutism.

Yeah, but he's our friend isn't he? I'm sorry he's dead, the poor divil, from a fall too - how unfortunate

 

[P. Littbarski]

Er, he was eighty-five and his writing is *still* with us...so it's not THAT much of a loss.

incorrect...we need to go now and burn all paper copies of his books and rub magnets over all remaining digital copies.

it's what kurt would have wanted

 

[ronan]

Brilliant writer.
I love him.

He was great in 'Back to School' too.

"Hey Kurt! (over the phone) Can you read lips? FUCK YOU!"

 

[Jackson.Bollock]

"The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them in cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks.......When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again."
From Slaughterhouse Five...beautiful piece of writing.

Now we know where Martin Amis got the idea for Time's Arrow.

 

[P. Littbarski]

"The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them in cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks.......When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again."
From Slaughterhouse Five...beautiful piece of writing.

Now we know where Martin Amis got the idea for Time's Arrow.

a friend of my family survived the dresden bombing...she told us how she survived the whole thing once...it's a bit of a crazy story.

you really don't like Martin Amis do you...be careful though...he posts here

 

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I could never watch the film of Breakfast of Champions, dunno why, just didn't work off the page.

never watched the film, one of my favourite of his books though

 

[Bladez]

Re: So it goes...

love timequake. bluebeard. s5. etc etc

RIP

Very sad - but he has had a long life. There was a great quote there in a BBC interview with him last year.

Vonnegut also said that he felt "embarrassed" to have lived to the age of 83.
"It's in terrible taste," he said.
"I had a fire several years ago, and it would have been so shapely if I'd died in that - but here I am.
"I'm suing a cigarette company because on the package they promised to kill me, and yet here I am," he joked.

I'd just re-read Bluebeard over the weekend. Like someone was saying, he is one of those authors that if you start reading a book of his, you'll end up reading a few in a row. I remember reading Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5 and Bluebeard in the space of a fortnight. Trying to pick up a book by any other author at that time, it just seemed dull in comparism.

Has anyone read A Man Without A Country - the book of essays that came out the other year? How does it compare to the novels? I think I'll give this a read now.