Kurt Vonnegut (1923-2007)

When I was in 7th or 8th grade I read Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle. I again read Slaughterhouse Five in 12th grade for AP English. I've also read: Breakfast of Champions, Hocus Pocus, Timequake, The Sirens of Titan, Bluebeard, Jailbird, and Slapstick. Vonnegut was the first author I read who penned scathing commentary about America and the Western world. Iguess you could say he was the one who really turned me on to reading. He was the first author I couldn't get enough of. He was an influence. He was a humanist, a skeptic and a true American. Time to read those books I haven't read and re-read those I have. So it goes. RIP Kurt and thanks.