(urth) Vonnegut (1922-2007)

[Matthew King]

The Arma Virumque blog has an interesting note on KV's passing, from  
which:

Surely I'm not alone in having spent much of middle and high school  
reading Kurt Vonnegut and then much of college sneering at anyone  
gullible enough to read him. If Vonnegut’s novels are anything,  
they’re easily outgrown, but what is easily outgrown is very often a  
perfect place to start. I owe a lot to those books, for one thing the  
ability to see their influence on some of today’s worst writing.

http://www.newcriterion.com/weblog/2007/04/kilgore-trout-was-here.html