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One of Americas' finest authors has diead at 84.



RIP Mr. Vonnegut and thank you for your works.

oh What the shit? Kurt Vonnegut Jr. died?

That's really upsetting sadwalk

Sorry....I read Dean Koontz myself thank god.

He'll never die.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Cool guy.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4707797.html

A self-described religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, Vonnegut used protagonists such as Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater as transparent vehicles for his points of view. He also filled his novels with satirical commentary and even drawings that were only loosely connected to the plot. In "Slaughterhouse-Five," he drew a headstone with the epitaph: "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

Vonnegut said the villains in his books were never individuals, but culture, society and history, which he said were making a mess of the planet.

"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard ... and too damn cheap," he once suggested carving into a wall on the Grand Canyon, as a message for flying-saucer creatures.