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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2007, 03:44:14 pm »
Ol Kurt is up in Heaven now smiling down on us.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2007, 03:57:23 pm »
I re-read much of Vonnegut's work every year or two.

"Cats Cradle" has never gotten old for me, I can say that much.

Also: "Player Piano" is the only novel by a major writer I've ever read where my hometown, Little Falls, is mentioned. It's only mentioned twice as a train stop along the way from the Albany metro area into the western Adirondacks but... it always felt like a validation somehow.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2007, 04:04:17 pm »
LFM-- I have a similar feeling that there are some works of Romare Bearden, the only artist I have ever heard of to come out of Charlotte, NC, in both the St Louis art musem and the Kemper Art Museum (the Washington U art museum.)

my best friend and I have a habit of saying "so it goes" to the point that... I sent him a message saying only that when I heard the news, and he thought I was commenting on something else he'd said because he hadn't heard that yet.
I didn't realize it was like, a thing that other people did.

So are the big three Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat's Cradle? I've never read BoC. I think I may re-read these this summer.

The illustration of Montana Wildhack's breasts was a big hit in my freshman writing class (high school, not college).
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2007, 12:19:06 am »
You should re-read those three, but you should also make sure to check out his non-fiction and Mother Night.

Also, I just read Welcome to the Monkey House last week, it is pretty good also.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2007, 04:28:19 pm »
Quote from: KeithHernandez on April 13, 2007, 12:19:06 am
You should re-read those three, but you should also make sure to check out his non-fiction and Mother Night.

And The Sirens of Titan; a bit more traditional Sci-Fi than most of the others but still excellent and contains several ideas that Douglas Adam would employ later in HHGTTG.

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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2007, 07:23:34 pm »
Several of the obits mentioned that for some reason his writing was cool when one is a kid but apparently you aren't supposed to enjoy it as an adult. I guess it's the whole "big ideas and changing the world is kids' stuff" mentality.

I tend to re-read Vonnegut between major novels as a break for myself. Like After reading The Iliad but before starting The Odyssey I re-read Sirens of Titan
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2007, 07:36:31 pm »
I really want to know why everyone reads the Illiad and the Odyssey, but not the Aeneid. I don't' know, maybe it isn't as well-regarded... my Latin teacher always set it up as basically an Improvement upon that old Greek stuff.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #22 on: April 22, 2007, 07:40:56 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 22, 2007, 07:36:31 pm
I really want to know why everyone reads the Illiad and the Odyssey, but not the Aeneid. I don't' know, maybe it isn't as well-regarded... my Latin teacher always set it up as basically an Improvement upon that old Greek stuff.

Actually I have the Fagles translation of the Aeneid in my wishlist right now. I'm just waiting for paperback or for my birthday.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #23 on: April 22, 2007, 08:40:30 pm »
not going to lie-- I have no basis to complain about this. I've read books 1-4 and 8 in Latin, but not in English. And reading it in Latin means that... I basically didn't absorb very much, I was mostly focused on translating correctly. I might read it in English one day, though. That Vergil sure could come up with some good phrases.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #24 on: April 22, 2007, 10:57:51 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 22, 2007, 08:40:30 pm
not going to lie-- I have no basis to complain about this. I've read books 1-4 and 8 in Latin, but not in English. And reading it in Latin means that... I basically didn't absorb very much, I was mostly focused on translating correctly. I might read it in English one day, though. That Vergil sure could come up with some good phrases.

I just hadn't found a translation that seemed worth the effort before. But I really enjoyed Fagle's translations of Homer, especially how he used footnotes to remind you of characters that hadn't been around for 9 books.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2007, 06:26:42 pm »
"Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again."

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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #26 on: April 24, 2007, 10:10:15 pm »
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2007, 01:49:34 am »
Quote from: side_show on April 24, 2007, 10:10:15 pm
15 things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anybody else.

I could've sworn that the "all person's...are coincidental" line was from Cat's Cradle. Way at the beginning. Like on the copyright page. My books are still packed from moving, so I can't look.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #28 on: April 25, 2007, 06:37:46 am »
Quote from: side_show on April 24, 2007, 10:10:15 pm
15 things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anybody else.

You oughta cross post this in the "Fifteen Things I Have Learned" thread.
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Re: I've been dreading this day.
« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2007, 12:41:47 pm »
I don't know why there are all of these sudden Top 15 lists lately, but I LIKE IT.
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