what will you remember about kurt vonnegut?

Question

Kurt died today and i am still in shock so i will post this simple question what will you remember him by?

fyi ray bradbury wrote Ferihite 451

favorite vonnegut book was wellcome to the monkey house

Answer 1

Slaughterhouse Five was required reading for a college English class I had. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The idea that is always with me from that book is something about war being inevitable - like glaciers - but that you should still fight it. I thought that was such a beautiful humanistic notion, and it's remained a soulful underpinning in my memory ever since. I remember finding it humorous when people in the class asked the professor, "Did Billy Pilgrim really go to Tralfamadore?" Vonnegut has certainly left a wondrous legacy.

Answer 2

Every book I have read of his, I was unable to put down after I started it. I can't say that about any other author that I have read. I created my first Myspace page on Tuesday (the day before he died). On it I put that if could meet anybody in the world, it would be Kurt Vonnegut. The next day I got online and found out he had died. That's what I will remember the most.

Answer 3

I'll remember him as one of the best public speakers, I've ever seen. Almost an accidental occurrence going to see him. I'd read Cat's Cradle, Slapstick, Player Piano, Slaughter House 5, and some others.
A pal told me he'd be speaking on campus that day and we grabbed some tickets for free, more to kill some time than out of a big desire to see him. I was expecting a dry speech, maybe some glad handing from the English department. I was wrong.
He gave this hilarious speech about the different possible plots of books and another on nuclear weapons if I remember right. I'd never seen a speaker make material so entertaining, or work an audience so perfectly.
So whenever I hear about some author like Charles Dickens or Samuel Clemens, both of whom used to pick up money doing speaking engagements, I think about how lucky I was to see this literary giant and great speaker in person.

Answer 4

an prolonged time in the past, in a Chicago far, distant, my Senior year English instructor assigned us to examine "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I enjoyed this e book, and examine the completed factor in a single day! right here day i exchange into bursting to tell everybody what takes place subsequent, yet my instructor made me shop the secrets and techniques till the classification caught up! quickly I have been given "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" and the others, jointly with the great "Slaughterhouse 5." i think of that Mr. Vonnegut helped shape my youthful ideas; i be attentive to he helped supply me my mistrust of our, and all governments! I felt like I lost a stable chum whilst KV, Jr died. So it is going. edit: That exchange right into a capture word he used as quickly as, "So it is going."

Answer 5

I will remember him for having the honor of being an author so many have tried to censor, in effect getting more attention to the foolishness of banning books.

“Slaughterhouse-Five” was burned in Drake, North Dakota (1973). It was banned in Rochester, Michigan because the novel “contains and makes references to religious matters” and thus fell within the ban of the establishment clause. It was challenged at the Owensboro, Kentucky high school library (1985) because of “foul language, a reference to “Magic Fingers” attached to the protagonist’s bed to help him sleep and also because of the sentence: “The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the fly of God Almighty.”” It was also challenged, but retained on the Round Rock, Texas Independent High School reading list (1996) saying that the book was “too violent.”

A teacher was dismissed for assigning “Welcome to the Monkey House”, a collection of short stories, to her 11th grade English class. The book was controversial because it promoted “the killing off of elderly people and free sex.” The teacher brought suit and won in Parducci v. Rutland, 316 F.Supp.352, (1970).

Answer 6

What a horrible shock. And I turned to my bookcase for Slaughterhouse-Five and it is startlingly absent - I could use its comfort at a time like this. Mr. Vonnegut was such a unique literary voice and will be sorely missed.

Answer 7

He is one of my favorite author.

Little bit information about him,

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007) (pronounced [va.nə.gət]) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1969),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five

- Cat's Cradle (1963),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle

- Breakfast of Champions (1973)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions

Answer 8

I will always remember ice 9 from "Cat's Cradle" but "Slapstick", and "Bluebeard" are my favorite Vonnegut books.

Answer 9

i will remember him for Fahrenheit 451. It's the only book he wrote that I read. Very good book. He had some interesting ideas.

Answer 10

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That's a bummer. I only read four, but they
are all great. Tongue-in-cheek was Vonnegut.
My favorite was Breakfast of Champions.




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