Kurt Vonnegut Dies

[that old guy]

Dunno why he and Philip Jose Farmer couldn't mend fences.

I remember Venus on the Half-Shell as being a complete hoot, right up there with Bored of the Rings, almost as good as the first two Hitchhiker's books.

One of the very few "rare" books I own is a retitled paperbook copy of Player Piano from the late '50s, called of all things Utopia 17. If that wasn't a Kilgore Trout moment, not sure what would be. It even has kind of a "lurid" cover.

I must admit I stopped reading him circa 1990 or so. Mother Night is still a favorite, ditto Cat's Cradle and Sirens of Titan. I'm afraid books like Breakfast of Champions and Slapstick that appealled to me in my younger days would probably too far out there for me nowadays.

 

[that old guy]

Here's a wild interview w/Vonnegut on NPR:

NPR : Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society

He's comes across as being in favor of intelligent design, expands a bit on the where the "tribal groups" in Slapstick came from, he even throws in a Nietzsche quote.

I guess anybody who could author Harrison Bergeron and Slaughterhouse Five is going to be a mite hard to pigeonhole.