So it goes
Just read on the news that
Kurt Vonnegut had passed away. The New York Times has a nice
extensive story about the man and his work.
I first came across his work while reading High Fidelity. In the book, the main character Rob was talking about how he's read "smart" books like
The Unbearable Lightness of Being and
Love in the Time of Cholera, but he didn't really enjoy those books as much as Kurt Vonnegut novels.
I'd only read a couple of Vonnegut books so far (
Slaughterhouse-Five and
Deadeye-Dick), and each time I found myself blown away by the experience. That was it, each Vonnegut novel was an experience. You have to be there to get it.
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