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RIP Kurt Vonnegut
shmokes:
Utter nonsense. A #1, I doubt there's anyone in this thread under 25. I didn't even read my first Vonnegut until I was in college (under 25, sure, but I'm over 25 now and he's still brilliant). And, FWIW, I find almost everything Kevin Smith has made unwatchable. Not just mediocre, but total crap. I mean, I don't know why I'm defending myself, like you're going to say, "Oh, well, if shmokes meets such-and-such criteria, but still likes Vonnegut, maybe I should give him another chance." But I will say that you're idea that only kids like Vonnegut is based solely on a gut feeling that is just plain wrong. Hell, Easton Press (a luxury book manufactuer that makes only beautifully leatherbound copies of books with satin end sheets and sewn pages with guilded edges, etc.) has most of his work for sale. These books range between $40 - $80 apiece and are not the type of thing that gets purchased by <25 year-olds.
Don't worry. You can just say, "I don't enjoy his books." They can simply not appeal to you, or have a writing style that rubs you the wrong way. You don't need to get anyone behind you to legitimize your opinion . . .
. . . Just say you have bad taste in lliterature and leave it at that :P
KenToad:
It's so tempting to try to smack down something generally, rather than just saying that you don't like it.
My grandfather and many people in my family loved Vonnegut's stuff. I'm not really a Vonnegut lover, but I did enjoy a couple of the novels. Anyway, he survived the firebombing of Dresden (in other words, the madness of war ... and maybe that's where he gets his peculiar sense of humor), and I think it's a testament to his genius that he is so broadly appreciated, from punks to hipsters to Grandpas and Grandmas.
I'm not a fan of PKD, but I wouldn't doubt his genius just because I can't read his stuff without thinking he could have done so much more without the pidgeonholing of the sci-fi genre, which luckily Vonnegut escaped, after Sirens of Titan.
Arcadiac:
So it goes. :'(
Author of one my favorites, SlaughterHouse Five, read by choice as a teen in the 70's. Rest in Peace Billy Pilgrim.
"Requiem"
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
:notworthy: Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007
So it goes.
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