It's sad to see such a great author, Kurt Vonnegut, die. He definitely dared people to think.

I found one story that I read about him to be quite funny. Vonnegut lived 70 of his 84 years as a chain smoker. He once joked to a Cornell Daily Sun audienced that he planned to sue the maker of his preferred brand of cigarettes for failing to make good on their promise to kill him, which he saw as implicit on each pack's warnings.

Haven't read any Vonnegut in years, but in the '70s, I read every single one of his novels. I guess my favorite was Cat's Cradle with its end of the world scenario via ice-nine. And I wouldn't have been able to remember which novel had ice-nine, had it not been for Google and Wikipedia!

Wordmatic

I liked Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).

Funny - I've read several of his works, but the only one that comes to mind is "Breakfast of Champions"

What I remember best/fondly about him is a quote from him about an incensed reviewer of his (or another author's) work in which he said (approximately) that 'attacking (such a work) was like donning a full suit of armor to attack an ice cream sundae'

(If sufficiently stirred to action, I might actually look up the actual quote)

Bob

Consider yourself sufficiently stirred!