Kurt Vonnegut R.I.P.

One of my favorite writers, Kurt Vonnegut, has passed. You can read about it here. And here. And also here, here, here, and here. I keep reading these different articles because I just can't believe it. The guy spends his whole life chain-smoking unfiltered Pall Malls in hopes of committing a "classy" suicide by cigarette, and ends up taking a run-of-the-mill, everyday-ordinary digger that ends with his demise...

Thank you Mr. Vonnegut, for introducing me to Ice 9, the Tralfamadorians, the karass vs. the granfalloons, Bokononism, and the term for those little things on raspberries that I can never remember the name of...

If I had to pick my top 5 favorite works of Vonnegut:

1. Welcome to the Monkey House
2. Cat's Cradle
3. Slaughterhouse Five
4. Mother Night
5. Hocus Pocus

I had been reading Galapagos lately before going to bed. I am fortunate that there are a few books of his that I haven't yet read...

Here's a list of quotes from Kurt Vonnegut. I urge you to read them five times a day, commit them to memory as soon as possible, and use them in your everyday conversation.

(In case it is not yet apparent, I'm not taking this news well...)