http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/1...t.ap/index.html

This writer was (is) one of the best spokesmen about the insanity of war. Also a great satirist of middle class American life in the 50's-early 60's.

Anyone who hasn't seen the movie Slaughterhouse-5 (which Vonnegut directed) is really missing something. It's hilariously funny, incredibly upsetting, and absurd in a theater-of-the-absurd way. (dramatic sigh... I laughed, I cried). In some ways he captures the psychological impact of World War II on the intellectual community of the 1960's.

Sorry about the book report, but Slaughterhouse-5 is one of my top ten favorite movies.

RIP Vonnegut

I loved his work. He had to have been one of the funniest most sensitive writers ever born.

sad to see him gone

It's always sad when a human being dies, but artistically, having read a few of his novels, I don't think there's much of a loss. I didn't find him to be all that good of a writer, and anti-war messages have been expressed by numerous authors in a much more intelligent manner, yet have gone largely unrecognized I suppose for just that reason.