So it goes
Posted
April 12, 2007 at
11:48 am by
Prescott
I know this has nothing to do with parenting, but I was so hit by the news I wanted to join in the mourning:
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
Vonnegut has always been one of my favorite authors, perhaps almost solely for emotional reasons. After slogging through Johnny Tremain, Watership Down and The Great Gatsby in junior high English class, I was starting to regret my reading level having advanced past Encyclopedia Brown. But then the teacher handed out the book that set my view of modern literature on its ear — Slaughterhouse-Five. I devoured it immediately, enthralled by the depth of character in Billy Pilgrim and the frankness of the language. I re-read it several times in a row. It turned my spark of interest in reading into a roaring inferno that has yet to be doused.
Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut, you will be missed.
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1. anthromomma said:
April 12, 2007 @ 2:35 pm | Quote
I’m so sad today. I can’t think of another author that has had such an impact on my own life and the way I think.
2. julymom said:
April 13, 2007 @ 9:14 pm | Quote
I feel you, Scott. RIP Kurt.
3. Karen said:
April 19, 2007 @ 10:12 am | Quote
I’m so glad that you mentioned his passing here. I heard the news on my way to work and just started to cry as if it he was a member of my family. It is so rare that a person comes along who is able to be honest, funny and startling all at the same time. I don’t think I ever realized how much of an insperation he has been to me until now. If only there could be more people in this world willing to stand up for thier beliefs and not shape those beliefs into the pre made boxes handed out by our society. His books are at the top of my reading list for every young adult, and I look forward to sharing his brilance with my child, just as my mother did with me.
Indeed, he will be missed.