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  1. Timequake 1ST Edition by Kurt Vonnegut, 1997
  2. Treks Not Taken: What If Stephen King, Anne Rice, Kurt Vonnegut and Other Literary Greats Had Written Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? by Steven Boyett, 1998-09-01
  3. Kurt Vonnegut: Three Complete Novels: Cat's Cradle; God Bless You Mr. Rosewater; Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 1995-05-28
  4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1991-11-03
  5. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
  6. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, 1985
  7. Love as Always, Kurt: Vonnegut as I Knew Him by Loree Rackstraw, 2009-03-09
  8. The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut, 2010-07-06
  9. SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1973
  10. Breakfast of Champions by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut, 1973
  11. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 2001-05-22
  12. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
  13. Welcome to the Monkey House by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut, 1973-01-31
  14. Vonnegut Omnibus: "Welcome to the Monkey House", "Palm Sunday" by Kurt Vonnegut, 1994-07-21

41. Kurt Vonnegut
From a talk presented by Ray Boomhower, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History managing editor, at a series on Indianapolis authors sponsored by the IndianapolisMarion County Public Library in 1994.
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From a talk presented by Ray Boomhower Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History managing editor, at a series on Indianapolis authors sponsored by the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library in 1994. A version of this talk appeared in the Spring 1999 issue of Traces.
Freed from his captivity by the Red Army's final onslaught against Nazi Germany and returned to America, the soldier Kurt Vonnegut Jr. tried for many years to put into words what he had experienced during that horrific event. At first, it seemed to be a simple task. "I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen," Vonnegut noted. It took him more than twenty years, however, to produce Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death . The book was worth the wait. Released to an American society struggling to come to grips with its involvement in another warin a small Asian country called VietnamVonnegut's magnum opus struck a nerve, especially with young people on college campuses across the country. Although its author termed the work a "failure," readers did not agree, as Slaughterhouse Five became a best-seller and pushed Vonnegut into the national spotlight for the first time.

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A quick quiz on Kurt Vonnegut's classic book 'The Sirens of Titan'. Enjoy. Average May 04 02 quogequox Isn't Kurt Vonnegut Brilliant?
This quiz tests your knowledge of seminal curly-haired German-American fiction god Kurt Vonnegut. His books are really brilliant. If you get less than 3 out of 10 on this quiz, you don't know what you've been missing!! Tough Apr 14 02 cowswithguns Slaughterhouse-Five quiz
What do you know about Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse-Five Easy Aug 24 00 TripleThreat Kurt Vonnegut and Co.

43. DeadEye Dick Kurt Vonnegut Musical Tribute
Free mp3 rock song by Vancouver's Sick Sick Yeah based on kurt vonnegut's novel Deadeye Dick.
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Mp3 Song Adapted By Sick Sick Yeah Based On Kurt Vonnegut's Novel Deadeye Dick
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Coles Notes rock version of the Vonnegut book by that same name. 2.3 Mb, 5:00 Mp3 file Mommy said that radiation would kill her
But it didn't even bother her all those brain tumours
She still had the time to critique the arts center
And now I am wealthy cuz my mommy was poisoned. Daddy enjoyed spending time with Hitler
Discussing watercolours over schnapps and schnitzel
Flying the Swastika in the state of Idaho
An upper-class twit but the uniform thrilled him Daddy said I can use the gunroom any time I like
Dadyy said I can use the gunroom any time I like
Deadeye Dick Then I had murdered a mother and child
I catered to my parents and my sex is denial
Did nothing creative just protected a cash till Worked graveyards for years and then I bought the Mercedes.

44. MSN Learning & Research - Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
American novelist, whose breezy style and innovative subject matter gained him a wide following.
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45. Who2 Profile: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
kurt vonnegut, JR. • Author. kurt vonnegut has Schmich. Extra creditkurt vonnegut Jr.'s father was also named kurt. vonnegut appears
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KURT VONNEGUT, JR. Author Kurt Vonnegut has been called a science fiction author, but it's well known that he's only used the cloak of sci-fi as a means to deliver his cranky-but-funny deliberations on the human condition. A modern-day Mark Twain , right down to the bushy mustache and black humor, Vonnegut has written dozens of satirical novels whose central theme is life's cosmic joke on humanity. His best-known books include Cat's Cradle Welcome to the Monkey House Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Slapstick (1976). In 1997 Vonnegut was the unwitting subject of a famous Internet hoax: a list of whimsical advice for college graduates was widely circulated via e-mail, identified as the text of a Vonnegut commencement address at MIT. In truth Vonnegut had no connection with the essay, which was written by Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich
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46. Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt Fortitude
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Genre Play (15pp. in alternate source) Keywords Aging Depression Euthanasia Human Worth ... Technology Summary In "Fortitude" Dr. Elbert Little, a Vermont family physician, visits the laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein and his trusty assistant, Dr. Tom Swift. Frankenstein has only one patient, Sylvia Lovejoy. His life work has been to keep Lovejoy alive. In 78 operations over the last 36 years, Frankenstein has replaced every one of her organs with prosthetic devices, so that now she consists of a head on a tripod, attached by tubes to various machines. Frankenstein controls her mood, as he controls all her functions, from a "fantastically complicated" master console. Usually he makes sure that she feels joyful and loving, but last month a transistor went bad in one of the machines and she felt depressed for a while; so depressed, in fact, that she wrote to Dr. Little and asked him to bring her some cyanide.

47. ClassicNotes: Kurt Vonnegut
kurt vonnegut. Biography of kurt vonnegut (1922). Prophetically, oneof this century's great American pacifists was born on Armistice Day.
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Prophetically, one of this century's great American pacifists was born on Armistice Day. Born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Vonnegut was born into a well-to-do family that was hit very hard by the Depression. Vonnegut went to public high school, unlike his two older siblings, and there gained early writing experience writing for the high school's daily paper. He enrolled at Cornell University in 1940, and, under pressure from his father and older brother, studied chemistry and biology. He had little real love for the subjects, and his performance was poor. He did, however, enjoy a position working for the Cornell Daily Sun. In 1942, Vonnegut left Cornell; at the time, the university was preparing to ask him to leave due to poor academic performance. He enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon) in 1943. He studied there only briefly before enlisting in the army. His mother killed herself in May of 1944. On December 14, 1944, Vonnegut was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. He was held as a POW in Dresden, a beautiful German city with no major industries or military presence. The bombing of Dresden was unexpected. Vonnegut and the other POWs were some of the only survivors. They waited out the bombing in a meat cellar deep under the slaughterhouse.

48. Kurt Vonnegut On Being A Native Middle-Westerner
A short article by vonnegut care of the Indiana Humanities Council.
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TO BE A NATIVE MIDDLE-WESTERNER By Kurt Vonnegut "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, who never to himself has said, this is my own, my native land." This famous celebration of no-brainer patriotism by the Scotsman Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), when stripped of jingoistic romance, amounts only to this: Human beings come into this world, for their own good, as instinctively territorial as timber wolves or honeybees. Not long ago, human beings who strayed too far from their birthplace and relatives, like all other animals, would be committing suicide. This dread of crossing well-understood geographical boundaries still makes sense in many parts of the world — in what used to be Yugoslavia in Europe, for example, or Rwanda in Africa. It is, however, now excess instinctual baggage in most of North America, thank God, thank God. It lives on in this country, as obsolescent survival instincts often do, as feelings and manners which are by-and-large harmless, which can even be comical. Thus do I and millions like me tell strangers that we are Middle Westerners, as though we deserved some kind of a medal for being that. All I can say in our defense is that natives of Texas and Brooklyn are even more preposterous in their territorial vanity.

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50. Salon People | Mad Humanist
Mad humanist In kurt vonnegut's world, free will is an open question, life is poignant and pointless and kindness is appreciated above all else.
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54. ClassicNotes: Slaughterhouse Five
Full summary and analysis of Slaughterhouse Five by kurt vonnegut Jr. written by Harvard students. Includes a biography, quiz, and research links to online Slaughterhouse Five resources.
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55. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Science Fiction Writer
vonnegut, kurt, Jr., Player Piano, Delacorte, New York, 1952. vonnegut,kurt, Jr., Welcome to the Monkey House, Dell, New York, 1970.
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God Bless You Mr. Rosewater,
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56. The Tralfamadorian Palace
A tribute to kurt vonnegut featuring sound clips and excerpts.
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The Tralfamadorian Palace
a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut Hi folks! Welcome to Ilium, NY! : )
I became a Vonnegut fan upon catching his interview on C-SPAN about war and other things, and I found him to be really cool. I looked up at my bookcase and I had a hardcover copy of "Galapagos" there, so I decided to read it, and I loved it! Now, I can't get enough. So here I am to make a page for him with nifty stuff I have! Enjoy! Characters and Places
Breakfast of Champions

Galapagos

Sirens on Titan
Slaughterhouse-Five
Hear Vonnegut read his "lyircs"

why don't you email me?
this page is still in the works....give it some time!!!!!

57. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
encyclopediaEncyclopedia vonnegut, kurt, Jr. von'ugut Pronunciation Key.vonnegut, kurt, Jr. 1922–, American novelist, b. Indianapolis.
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58. The Books Of Bokonon
In Cat's Cradle, kurt vonnegut, Jr., created a new religion, Bokononism. All material contained was written by kurt vonnegut and scattered throughout Cat's Cradle wherever it best suited the novel. The site tabulates his snippets into an order that one might find in a real copy of the Books of Bokonon.
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In Cat's Cradle , Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., created a new religion, Bokononism. The holy scripture of Bokononism was the ever-growing "Books of Bokonon", written by Bokonon a British Episcopalian Negro from the island of Tobago whose real name was Lionel Boyd Johnson as a way to distract the people of San Lorenzo from their pitiful lives. What is sacred to Bokononists? Not God; just one thing: man. All material contained below was written by Kurt Vonnegut and scattered throughout Cat's Cradle wherever it best suited the novel. I have merely tabulated as best I could his snippets into an order that one might find in a real copy of the Books of Bokonon. I have also tried to cross-reference these snippets to the numbered sections of the novel, where you may read of scripture in the context of Vonnegut's story.
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59. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
vonnegut, kurt, Jr. novelist Birthplace Indianapolis Born 11/11/22 Previousvon Karajan, Herbert, Top of section V, Next Von Stade, Frederica.
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60. The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page - Trout
Philip Jos© Farmer on kurt vonnegut and Kilgore Trout.
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One of Phil Farmer's grand-daughters was writing a paper about him for college and as we all do these days, she went online to do some research. While searching for "Kilgore Trout" she came across this Kilgore Trout home page
On this web page there is part of an interview with Vonnegut where he discusses Farmer. She sent Phil a copy of it and he decided that he would like to have his version of the story online as well. So here it is:
VOTH-S was first published in Feb. 1975. I was 57 years old then. Now, I'm 81. I thought all that hoo-hah about VOTH-S was long behind me. Then, a grand-daughter who's online sent me the Vonnegut website papers. She was indignant about what KV said about her beloved Baba. I read V's comments about me. I thought, "Oh, God! I don't want to go through this youthful indiscretion again! Let it die!"
But I must answer some of V's accusations. First, however, I will repeat and insist upon the fact that it was not the money I hoped to make from writing as Kilgore Trout that caused me to write the novel. It was a tribute to KV inspired because of my admiration of his worksup through KV's Breakfast of Champions. I don't care what KV says. I did it because it would be a testament of my great love for his works. And I thought it'd be a splendid idea if a book by Trout, whom everybody thought was a fictional character, did appear. Fantasy would become realityat least for a while.
I was not burned up about KV's decision to stop me from writing sequels to VOTH-S. Actually, all I really wanted was to write SON OF JIMMY VALENTINE, then I'd quit the Trout thing. I was not burned up; I was saddened. But, after all, Trout was KV's character. And I was lucky to and delighted to have written VOTH-S.

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