I'm always the last to know

'kilgore trout' on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:26:00 GMT, sez:

Dead is he? His books were rubbish. Mine were much better. He used to do a paper run for me, you know?

'lb' on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:28:13 GMT, sez:

yeh kt.

so it goes.

'jtr' on Sat, 12 May 2007 13:19:21 GMT, sez:

"player piano" is also really good.

'engtech' on Sat, 12 May 2007 19:23:36 GMT, sez:

It was a weird coincidence, I was in a used book store buying Cat's Cradle and God Bless You Mr Rosewater to read on a flight at almost exactly the time it happened.

'Skronk' on Sun, 13 May 2007 03:37:39 GMT, sez:

I read Slaughterhouse Five when I was eighteen.
Reading it lifted me out of a nasty bout of depression. Yes. But it made me very crazy for a long time. So it goes.

'Doekman' on Sun, 13 May 2007 07:02:16 GMT, sez:

The Sirenes of Titan is also very good. Unless you can't handle the a bit "dated" Sci-Fi part.

'Farmer Jeb' on Sun, 13 May 2007 23:52:43 GMT, sez:

I didn't know he died! He's my favourite author. Player Piano introduced the idea of a "technocratic society". I was an undergraduate engineering student at the time I read it and thought that would be great - geeks running the world. After 12 years in the IT industry I know now that the idea is in fact utterly terrifying.

'Kyralessa' on Tue, 15 May 2007 02:02:57 GMT, sez:

Welcome to the Monkey House.

For some reason, Vonnegut's short stories always get overlooked. There are some great ones in Welcome to the Monkey House.

'Pablo' on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:26:03 GMT, sez:

At times like this, I am reminded of Alexei Sayle's lament that talented people die while the mediocre survive.

"... Bill Hicks, John Lennon, Orson Welles - dead. Michael Bolton... Michael bleeding Bolton - alive..."

Kurt Vonnegut - dead. Jeffrey Archer - alive.

'Broschat' on Thu, 17 May 2007 14:47:48 GMT, sez:

I'm going to recommend that you listen to Ethan Hawke read Slaughterhouse Five, if you have the opportunity. 5-6 CD set, if I recall correctly.

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