Although I frequently didn't agree with this views, the man was a damn fine writer and always made me think. Time to go back and reread some of his stuff again.



Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies

NEW YORK - 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. He was 84.