Ignoring a survey to talk about authors, nerd alert
If I removed every dirty old man from my bookshelf, I'd have an awfully empty bookshelf. KVJ was a complicated dude, I wouldn't be surprised if he did some skirt chasing but idk, more suicidal/drunk than sexual predator I think. I hope anyhow.
Yeah, pretty much.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/03/kurt-vonnegut-biography
Edit: Also he dead. He real dead.
Yeah, that was a shitty day. I don't have any cool stories about the day he died, but I can tell you that no one at my shitty retail job was particularly impressed by my explanation of why I seemed really depressed that day.
When I was teaching ENG 101/105/10-whocares I used to assign Slaughterhouse 5 as a semester long extra credit project just to get them reading it.
Having vague memories now that my one English teacher in high school who had us read Cat's Cradle had to make a giant stink for a long time before they let her do that, but...yeah. I ended up with an entire shelf of Vonnegut before I graduated, thanks to that teacher and that book. Can totally relate to the "someone different like I was" feel.
YES. And a writer talking about important things in an entertaining way that feels more like a conversation than a lecture? Yes please! Such a great writer.
Eh. As an adult I'd have to pull harder for Bradbury; just as concise, so much more elegant, didn't have to stunt nearly so hard to get his point across.
Which isn't to say that Vonnegut isn't great. I'm glad you got to teach classes where you could, er, "inspire" people to read him, that must have been pretty cool.
***end nerd alert, please continue talking about sportsballs or whatever
