Author Topic: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007 (Read 488 times)

rpm · « **on:** April 12, 2007, 12:37:02 PM »

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different."

Boroda · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2007, 01:43:44 PM »

One of the last greatest writers...

sluggish · « **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2007, 01:50:19 PM »

This is a thread to watch. Some of the hardcores here will slam him for being a subversive.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** April 12, 2007, 01:56:43 PM »

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Originally posted by sluggish
This is a thread to watch. Some of the hardcores here will slam him for being a subversive.

By todays standard of subversive behavior (just turn on TV or watch a Hollyweird flick) his stuff is pre-school subversive in comparison.

Sluggish, that is a bizarre avatar!:cool:

Boroda · « **Reply #4 on:** April 12, 2007, 04:59:23 PM »

Several years ago I posted Vonnegut's article here. Now I wish we could have anyone here in Russia with the same level of public respect and talent to write a 2-page satire on current situation in our "multinational country".

I hope you guys understand what you have lost. Hamingway, Heinlein, Vonnegut. Mind-bending literature. The only writer who worked in XX century and definetely was above THEIR level was pan Stanislaw. I mean Lem.

From all Russian literators worth reading in translation I can only name Gogol' and Dostoyevskiy. And if we come "down" to sci-fi - Strugatsky brothers with their brilliant picture of XXII century Communism.

So it goes.

Mr No Name · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2007, 05:47:24 PM »

liked his cameo in Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School" When Rodney hired Kurt to write a paper on one of his books and he flunked... funny stuff!

Shuckins · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2007, 06:45:25 PM »

So it goes.

storch · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:06:54 PM »

boroda does hamingway hang out with cheese?

Halo · « **Reply #8 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:24:26 PM »

Can't find the exact page, but I'm pretty sure Kurt wrote the ultimate perspective somewhere in Catch 22 when he said something about "it" being "only the hairy end of a wet gut."

DiabloTX · « **Reply #9 on:** April 13, 2007, 12:12:12 AM »

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Originally posted by storch
boroda does hamingway hang out with cheese?

That's Cheesinovsky.