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Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: rpm on April 12, 2007, 12:37:02 PM
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Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: Boroda on April 12, 2007, 01:43:44 PM
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One of the last greatest writers...
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: sluggish 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.
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: Ripsnort 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:
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: Boroda 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.
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: Mr No Name 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!
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: Shuckins on April 12, 2007, 06:45:25 PM
So it goes.
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: storch on April 12, 2007, 09:06:54 PM
boroda does hamingway hang out with cheese?
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: Halo 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."  :o
Title: Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007
Post by: DiabloTX 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.