According to the NY Times, Kurt Vonnegut died this week at 84. There was nothing like it when I discovered ” The Sirens of Titan,†a science-fiction novel featuring the Church of God of the Utterly Indifferent in the library when I was 13 (except for the discovery, a few weeks later, of Heinlein’s ” A Stranger in a Stranger Land.”)
Vonnegut’s darkly comic, wildly satiric novels were just the thing for a young dorky teen in a close-in suburb, giving me tools to laugh, mock and understand the status quo–and the emerging counter culture.
Rest in peace, Mr. Vonnegut. So it goes.
According to the NY Times, Kurt Vonnegut died this week at 84. There was nothing like it when I discovered ” The Sirens of Titan,†a science-fiction novel featuring the Church of God of the Utterly Indifferent in the library when I was 13 (except for the discovery, a few weeks later, of Heinlein’s ” A Stranger in a Stranger Land.”)
Vonnegut’s darkly comic, wildly satiric novels were just the thing for a young dorky teen in a close-in suburb, giving me tools to laugh, mock and understand the status quo–and the emerging counter culture.
Rest in peace, Mr. Vonnegut. So it goes.