Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture’s Novelist, Dies

[Jaga]

Vonnegut was an amazing writer. I remember when I got his first book in my hands "Breakfast of Champions" - I was a teenager then. I loved this book! This book was just something very different than anything else I read in my life. It left a deep impression on me.

here is his famous book (he also did some drawings there)

www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Champions-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385334206/polishculture-20

read more about Vonnegut, his uneasy life (he almost died in Dresden during the allien attack in slaughterhouse...) then he suffered from depression his all life.

[Jaga]

Vonnegut during the war:

Vonnegut's experience as a soldier and prisoner of war had a profound influence on his later work. As an advance scout with the U.S. 106th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge, Vonnegut was cut off from his battalion and wandered alone behind enemy lines for several days until captured by German troops on December 14, 1944.[5] While a prisoner of war, Vonnegut witnessed the aftermath of the February 13–15, 1945 bombing of Dresden, Germany, which destroyed much of the city. Vonnegut was one of just seven American prisoners of war in Dresden to survive, in an underground meatpacking cellar known as Slaughterhouse Five. "Utter destruction," he recalled. "Carnage unfathomable." The Nazis put him to work gathering bodies for mass burial, Vonnegut explains. "But there were too many corpses to bury. So instead the Nazis sent in guys with flamethrowers. All these civilians' remains were burned to ashes."[6] This experience formed the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five and is a theme in at least six other books.[6]

Vonnegut was freed by Soviet troops in May 1945. Upon returning to America, Vonnegut was awarded a Purple Heart for what he called a "ludicrously negligible wound."[7]

from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

[Jaga]

How many of you had a chance to read Vonnegut. I am reading again his book "Breakfast of Champions". I will try cat's cradle later on. Vonnegut had some scietnific background, he also knew the world outside America. He sees the world the way we all should to the certain extend.

Besides, he is funny, sometimes his humor is black. Anyways, I really really recomment it to everybody