Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut passed away yesterday. I spent the summer of 1993 at the University of Central Florida. One of my roommates was Rob Wessel, a student from the University of North Carolina who claimed that his middle name was Elvis and never told me what his Bazooka Joe joke was. He loaned me Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus to read, and I enjoyed it. It was different from anything else I'd read before...more stream of consciousness...more creative punctuation (at least that's what I remember about it). Over the next few years I read the rest of his books as he became one of my favorite authors. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater was probably his novel that I enjoyed most. Wessel also loaned me Sam Shepard's Seven Plays which I also really dug.