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mike_dee23
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 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: New Kurt Vonnegut book out |
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"Armageddon in Retrospect"... it's a collection of unpublished nonfiction and fiction. I'm pretty excited about it.
Anyone else going to pick one up?
| Quote: | | "When Kurt Vonnegut died in April 2007, the world lost a wry commentator on the human condition. Thanks to this collection of unpublished fiction and nonfiction, Vonnegut's voice returns full force. Introduced by his son, these writings dwell on war and peace, especially the firebombing of Dresden, Germany. The volume opens with a poignant 1945 letter from Pfc. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to his father in Indianapolis, presenting a vivid portrait of his harrowing escape from that city. The fiction, full of his characteristic humor, includes stories about time travel and the impossibility of peace in the world ('Great Day') and, in the title piece, a kind of mock Paradise Lost, Dr. Lucifer Mephisto teaches his charges about the insidious nature of evil and the impossibility of good ever triumphing. In his final speech, Vonnegut lets go some of his zingers (jazz is 'safe sex of the highest order') and does what he always did best, tell the truth through jokes: 'And how should we behave during the Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don't already have one.' So it goes." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) |
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Absolutely! KV is world famous, but still underrated.
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| 24 wrote: | | Absolutely! KV is world famous, but still underrated. |
The Mark Twain of our generation?
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| mike_dee23 wrote: | | 24 wrote: | | Absolutely! KV is world famous, but still underrated. |
The Mark Twain of our generation? |
I wonder what observation either might make about the fact that this thread has only 4 posts while howard stern is two pages and going...
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| 24 wrote: | | mike_dee23 wrote: | | 24 wrote: | | Absolutely! KV is world famous, but still underrated. |
The Mark Twain of our generation? |
I wonder what observation either might make about the fact that this thread has only 4 posts while howard stern is two pages and going... |
Hey, don't knock Stern!
I really enjoy Vonnegut. I have read several books of his, a few short stories, and have Player Piano sitting on my night stand waiting to be read next. But the reason I did not partake in this thread is because I was afraid that this was a hoax, because it was posted on April Fool's Day.
Also, something about mike_dee's post and the description of the book did not sit well with me. I am not sure what it is, but it kept me from posting.
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^ I would never post something fake, Encina! 
So far, I've only read his letter back home after the Dresden fire bombings. Pretty cool stuff.
My favorite Vonnegut line is "a semicolon is a hermaphroditic transvestite."
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Thanks. I love reading KVs books
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| mike_dee23 wrote: | ^ I would never post something fake, Encina!
So far, I've only read his letter back home after the Dresden fire bombings. Pretty cool stuff.
My favorite Vonnegut line is "a semicolon is a hermaphroditic transvestite." |
I am just happy I wasn't Rick Rolled when I clicked the link
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OMG, new Vonnegut!!! Thanks for this, he is my fav author  |
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| The Dresden piece is in the current issue of Playboy . . . excellent (I'm referring to the article)! |
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| raffi wrote: | | The Dresden piece is in the current issue of Playboy . . . excellent (I'm referring to the article)! |
bet you can't even tell me who the centerfold is, can you? You saw, "Vonnegut letter" on the cover and said, "I need to get that," right? 
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| mike_dee23 wrote: | | raffi wrote: | | The Dresden piece is in the current issue of Playboy . . . excellent (I'm referring to the article)! |
bet you can't even tell me who the centerfold is, can you? You saw, "Vonnegut letter" on the cover and said, "I need to get that," right? |
I think some girl from Germany (with DDs).  |
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Hell YES!!!!!!
KV is my favorite author.
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| mbloves L.A. wrote: | Hell YES!!!!!!
KV is my favorite author. |
Good Man!
Maybe sombody else should have been reading Vonnegut instead of, say, "My Pet Goat"? (actually "The Pet Goat", for you trivia buffs) 
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Vonnegut's an inspiration to all literary types, especially those of the Hoosier persuasion.
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| ElginBaylor wrote: | | Vonnegut's an inspiration to all literary types, especially those of the Hoosier persuasion. |
Tru dat Essay!
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| ElginBaylor wrote: | | Vonnegut's an inspiration to all literary types, especially those of the Hoosier persuasion. |
Yes, but Vonnegut believed his work, and that of many others, was inspired by an upbringing in middle America, not moving there later and attempting to seem "Local"
<<Insert clip of chevy chase eating testicles here>>
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