Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as 'Slaughterhouse-Five' and 'Cat's Cradle,' died Wednesday.
Kurt Vonnegut has been called a science fiction author, but it's well known that he's only used the cloak of sci-fi as a means to deliver his cranky-but-funny deliberations on the human condition. A modern-day Mark Twain, Vonnegut has written dozens of satirical novels whose central theme is life's cosmic joke on humanity.
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This is really sad- his work is fantastic.
An amazing writer. He will be missed.
Unfortunately Slaughterhouse-Five is on the to-be-banned list at my old high school. He wrote some very powerful letters that help us prevent that last year.
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