Kurt Vonnegut died on Wednesday. "Like Mark Twain, he used humor to tackle the basic questions of human existence: Why are we in this world? Is there a presiding figure to make sense of all this, a god who in the end, despite making people suffer, wishes them well?" from the New York Times
His experience in the fire bombing of Dresden in 1945 was the basis of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” which was published in 1969 against the backdrop of war in Vietnam, racial unrest and cultural and social upheaval.
I'll be re-reading some of his books soon - Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions.
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oh, please do ... read Cat's Cradle and then write about it ... i'd love to hear what you thought of it
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