Kurt Vonnegut Dies

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: April 12, 2007
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Kurt Vonnegut Dies The end of an era as the greatest living America writer passes today from brain injuries sustained in an accidental fall. I am a huge long time fan of the amazing imagination of Kurt Vonnegut, he is clearly the greatest author of my years on this planet. I have read every work of Mr. Vonnegutt, with my favorites and recommendations being Slapstick and The Sirens of Titan. These are two of the more “science-fictiony” of his books but both are still works of a strange imagination and subtle way of sliding his political views under your nose.

Also good from Vonnegut is the famous “Slaughterhouse Five” which is the life of Billy Pilgrim as he relives it with the help of “learning how to visit” times in his life from aliens (to simplify things). He stands in a lecture hall at the beginning and end of the story and announces that he is going to be assisnated and has visited this time in his life before, as a vengeful man from his past waits to do just that in the audience. These character interact at other stages of the story to create this revenge situation and it all plays out completely “un”chronologically.

Galapagos is another polular one as the setting of the book (if I recall) is today, which is 1,000,000 years in the future and the story teller is telling of an ancient time, which is 1,000,000 years ago (today). The story shows events that lead to another million year eveolution and the last days before the near-extinction that occurred.

The Greatest Writer Of My Lifetime Vonnegut is hands down the most creative mind and on par (and similar to) Mark Twain and HG Wells in the ability to spin a story in a world that has zero ties to our own. You will truly feel like all the rules of the world he writes about have no boundries you have come to hold as truth.

I always swore I would attend the funeral of what I consider a great man in modern American history, I am sorry to say I dont believe I will be able to be there. I wished o witness the end of something truly unique and beautiful as was his talent.

In the end he broke even, as he said he made love the same amount of women as people he had killed.