Kurt Vonnegut is the freaking man...

[slackerinabox]

Just started reading "Welcome to the monkey house"... I always thought that the guy was a sci-fi writer but some of the stories in the collection dealt with some genuinely mature, sweet, yet always interesting topics.. Like for all the people that think women are "attention whores" and have really primitive views of women MUST read "Miss Temptation" (apathy: learn the word).. The book so far is wonderful but my fav so far is Harrison Bergeron - awesome story about the effects of extreme political correctness

 

[yellowperil]

Excellent book. I read Harrison Bergeron in middle school but I didn't remember it was by Vonnegut until I picked up Monkey House

 

[BG4533]

I read Harrison Bergeron in grade school and thought it was pretty cool. I mean to read Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five sometime, but there is never time.

 

[chiwawa626]

I read Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut ...great book

 

[cavemanmoron]

Mr Vonnegut is a writer who has written some Far out stuff.

i read several of his books years ago,some when i was in High school.
He lived in nearby Schenectady,and mentions Sch'dy in his novels,at times,
He worked for a while at GE.



http://www.ipass.net/brianrodr/vonnegut/
KURT VONNEGUT (1922-)

"When you're dead, you're dead. Make love when you can. It's good for you."

Birthplace
Indianapolis, US

Education
Biochemistry, Cornell University; Anthropology, Chicago University

Other jobs
Served in US infantry in Europe during the second world war, taken prisoner (awarded Purple Heart); Chicago City News Bureau, police reporter (1946); General Electric Co., NY, public relations (1947-50); lecturer, Harvard University, (1971-72).



http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-136,00.html

Critical verdict
Graham Greene called Vonnegut "one of the best living American writers", and his huge and devoted fan base around the world wouldn't have it any other way. Widespread public recognition came with the ground-breaking semi-autobiographical Slaughterhouse 5, which welded the author's horrific experiences during the allied bombing of Dresden to a surreal, tragicomic sci-fi fatalism, but he had already honed his cosmic satire in the earlier Sirens Of Titan and Cat's Cradle. Vonnegut moved away from sci-fi but his humanism never left him; his "concern for society's more fallible specimens", as he puts it, shapes all his work, and he successfully mixes dark fatalism with both humour and hope

 

[Yossarian]

Breakfast of Champions! Not every day you get to see a hand-drawn sphincter

 

[PatboyX]

you are correct. he is, in fact, the man.
all of his books are fantastic, even the ones that sort of stink.
cats cradle and sirens of titan are two of my favorite. i read cats cradle and breakfast of champions at least once a year. so much fun!

he has an interesting transcribed interview in print with lee stringer called "like shaking hands with god" its mostly about writing and you should really check it out if you have the chance.

 

[Brutuskend]

For those who like Kurt, you might also check out Tom Robbins.

Also read "Galapagos " by Vonnegut.

"Mankinds problem is that he was born with too big a brain" Lose Quotation from Galapagos And OH so true

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
For those who like Kurt, you might also check out Tom Robbins.

Also read "Galapagos " by Vonnegut.

"Mankinds problem is that he was born with too big a brain" Lose Quotation from Galapagos And OH so true

YES!
tom robbins = happiness.