vincegamer
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Sad news today, great author Kurt Vonnegut has died.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18066068/
We\'ll miss you Kilgore Trout
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No Such Agency
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Yes, I saw that. He was certainly one of the great iconoclasts of our time. I haven\'t read any of his stuff in ages, but it was all good.
Dammekkos2
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Cheetah is still alive though. 75 today.
it\'s odd knowing that he\'s gone -- his oddballness will be missed.
Venus on the Half Shell was my personal favorite of the books that he never wrote.
Venus on the Half Shell was my personal favorite of the books that he never wrote.
vincegamer
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I once had a book of short stories that were all apocolypse stories.
One of them had the world come to a fiery end except for a bunch of people at a sci-fi writers\' convention. So the world had to be repopulated by Ray Bradburry, Isaac Asimov, Philip Jose Farmer, Kilgore Trout etc. (yes, Kilgore Trout was one of the survivors in the story - all other authers were real people).
One of them had the world come to a fiery end except for a bunch of people at a sci-fi writers\' convention. So the world had to be repopulated by Ray Bradburry, Isaac Asimov, Philip Jose Farmer, Kilgore Trout etc. (yes, Kilgore Trout was one of the survivors in the story - all other authers were real people).
philologus
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I was going to post this until I saw your title. He was a big influence on me. Have read all of his books repeatedly even though I disagreed with him on most everything. He shares a birthday with me and he also served in the US Army infantry like me. He will be missed.
I liked Trout, but my favorite characters were Rabo Karabekian and Sherman Krebbs.
I liked Trout, but my favorite characters were Rabo Karabekian and Sherman Krebbs.
a very short story but it had a big influence on me.
harrison bergeron.
by far a masterpiece.
he was one of the first people that caused us to look at today\'s society and try to understand why we act and do the things we do and how sometimes just sometimes it might be just how it really is. a great man will be missed.
harrison bergeron.
by far a masterpiece.
he was one of the first people that caused us to look at today\'s society and try to understand why we act and do the things we do and how sometimes just sometimes it might be just how it really is. a great man will be missed.
vincegamer
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Harison Bergeron should be required reading.
Heh,
One of my old professors had handled his Masters at the University of Chicago. There were always stories about him lingering abut.
I read a book of essays he wrote once. The man had a way of understating his concerns that was quite effective. Where others would throw everything they had at you, and you would pull back thinking they\'d thrown some BS in with the works, Vonnegut always left you with the impression there was more still to his position. The restraint actually added power to his arguments rather than detracting from them.
One of my old professors had handled his Masters at the University of Chicago. There were always stories about him lingering abut.
I read a book of essays he wrote once. The man had a way of understating his concerns that was quite effective. Where others would throw everything they had at you, and you would pull back thinking they\'d thrown some BS in with the works, Vonnegut always left you with the impression there was more still to his position. The restraint actually added power to his arguments rather than detracting from them.
AinuLainour
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It is at my school, I read it earlier this year. RIP Kurt Vonnegut.
philologus
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vincegamer
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He\'s in heaven now.
