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Submitted by Glasses on Wed, 04/11/2007 - 10:35pm.

Kurt Vonnegut died today at the age of 84. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

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I'm so sad.

Submitted by agathafrye on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 7:45am.

I can't believe there will be no more new Vonnegut books to read. Vonnegut reached me with his writing when I was an adolescent and nobody else could. Thanks for the laffs, Kurt.

One of the all time greats.

Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 8:01pm.

One of the all time greats. I saw him when he came to Olympia and spoke at the Washington Center in the late 1980s, but I think he had started getting burned out by then. He came across as kind but jaded and tired. Only a WWII vet could've written Slaughterhouse Five with such passion and realism. That novel was so good, it consistently appeared on the "Moral" Majority's top ten list of books to censor in the 1980s. Along with Kesey and Brautigan, Kurt was a big influence when I wrote scripts for my comix. I gave almost all my Vonnegut books away to a young man a few years ago and passed the torch. Goodbye and thanks for the great stories, Kurt.

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