Kurt Vonnegut
11 Nov 1922-11 Apr 2007
We've lost yet another great voice from the global conscience. Novelist, free-thinker, funnyman Kurt Vonnegut has passed away at age 84. He was, without a second thought, my favorite writer, and I will miss him. A lot of my own ideas and thoughts were shaped by reading his novels: thinly-disguised commentary on the human condition, masquerading as some of the most bizarre science fiction I've ever read. I'm just grateful that he left so much of himself behind in his writing, which I'm going back to re-read (and, as anyone who knows me will tell you, I don't re-read many books). A sad, sad day for me, indeed.
1 comment:
Phil,
So sorry to hear this. We read it in the paper, and thought of you. I know much of his writings struck a chord with you.
DOD and MOM
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