Kurt Vonnegut died today

[Jomb]

The Bard does have quite a large cult following for a guy from centuries ago, does he not?

All I'm saying is that in the year 2354 there will be gatherings of people, similar to what we have today at a medieval festival, where people will be selling fake ice-9 and quoting lines from Vonnegut's books. Everyone else will probably think his work is too difficult to read because it uses that "old" English that sounds so archaic in 2354.

[kahljorn]

in the future we won't have jobs (except at medieval festivals, which will be voluntary).

[JohnBoy]

Originally Posted by kahljorn

how many great modern authors are left? that's wht i thought when this happened

Thomas Pynchon comes to mind, but I would be hard pressed to name many more.

[McClain]

STFU JohnBoy. Thomas Pynchon isn't modern. He's contemporary. And he's not even an author. He's a novelist.

[kahljorn]

SORRY I GUESS I CANT TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY AND MODERN.

lol why the hell do people name time periods "Modern" and "Contemporary" didn't it occur to them that they are labeling a time period with a time label that won't be appropriate one hundred years later?

[JohnBoy]

Why don't you explain the difference then you pretentious prick? Pynchon has written novels and authored short stories (See "Slow Learner"). As far as pidgeonholing his genre/writing style, I took Kahljorn's use of Modern to mean modern era writers.

[kahljorn]

I meant modern as in authors who are still alive and around today mostly I'm not really all that anal about time periods or whatever especially since 'modern' can also mean 'modern' and not just an era.

[JohnBoy]

I was responding to McClain. No disrespect Kahl.

[kahljorn]

I know, I was indirectly responding to McClain.

[Black Flag]

really you would've been way better off saying tom wolfe than thomas pynchon

or john mcphee that is where it is at man

but guys don't forget the point of this thread and that's to be sad about kurt vonnegut being dead cause it's sad that he is dead

[Womti]

Originally Posted by Goat Cheese

Dean Koontz?

he's dead now.

[kahljorn]

besides being a mediocre writer

[Esuohlim]

There must be a bandwagon that a bunch of fags are jumping on because I went to the bookstore this morning hoping to buy some more Vonnegut and the usual shelf of 25 or so copies of books was all gone except for Slapstick, which I already own and is admittedly not that great either (but hey I liked it )

[kahljorn]

I like to buy them from amazon because they are three dollars cheaper and you can get free shipping which can end up equalling like 9 dollars saved which is almost an entire book.
of course freeshipping takes like a week