RIP Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, an author who I admire above most others is no more.

http://www.kurtvonnegut.com/

A master of fiction his works were accessible and profound.
Many people seemed not to really rate as his work as they found it to lack layers.
I think his work was radically the opposite.

His work speaks to you in plain terms, as one critic commented "like a demented Uncle".
In a way he's everything that I aspire to as a writer.
His work seduced you, sucked you in and got a hold of you on straight forward terms, and then took you for a roller coaster ride around modern life.
He was a great commentator.
I think it's safe to say his work will live on. He captured something so essential about how people interact, how people are. He spoke of not just aspects of the "American experience" but even broader of a realistic, fantastic 'Human experience'.

His death at the ripe old age of 84 proves that there's not only one way out if you're a great american novelist.