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I was listening to SH5 on audiobook and scrolling through my phone. Then I realized KV deserves 100% of my attention. So I put the phone down and did NOT regret it. Genius.

Mr. Vonnegut can say more in one paragraph than most writers say in a whole chapter!

Not an american hero, a earth hero.

Kurt handles this needling host with absolute intelligence and good honest intention

There's something about the way he speaks, with those head tilts and the falls of his gaze and random grins, that just captivates you...

I love Kurt. My favorite writer. He was at Dresden. Respect.

love his humility. some may interpret self-deprecation or self-criticism as a kind of ploy for humor-laced sympathy, but hes just a great dude

I still think about you Kurt

I discovered Kurt when I was about 13 years old (1970) when I read "Sirens Of Titan". I was already a reader, and just making the transition from Young Adult selections to Adult. One of my older siblings shoved Sirens into my hands, saying "Read it!" So I got crackin'...and by the time (I think it took me all of 3 days to read it) I'd discovered the incredibly rich Malachi Constant, Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog Kazak, chrono-synclastic infundibulum, the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent, Salo, the Tralfamadorian, whose penis was something like 3' in diameter and 1 inch long and the Harmoniums, I was absolutely and utterly gobsmacked! KV was a revelation to me! I read everything of his that was available at that time. I followed "Sirens...." with "Cat's Cradle", then "Slaughterhouse-Five" and so on. Within a very short time, I'd become a total V-Head. He so completely captured my mind at that impressionable young age that I'm sure he contributed significantly to the shaping of my world view. Kurt Vonnegut remains my All-Time Favorite, Most Influential Human to this day.

‘Nothing I did after 55 is very good’ Galapagos and Bluebeard are in my top 5 Vonnegut books

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

I wish I could talk to him about all of his books, how amazing that would be

The quote of his about "we are what we pretend to be" is something I'm going to use from now on against internet trolls who claim that they aren't really the assholes they make themselves out to be.

And so it goes.

Listening to him here and other interviews always pains me, why you ask? Listen to the rasp emitting from his lungs, he was a heavy cigarette smoker ( as I was ) and I pass no judgment, they passed them out like candy during WWII knowing the boys needed something for the stress, and one only has to watch the old talk shows and see the tobacco sponsors. My father also fought in WWII against the Nazis and in reading Slaughter House Five it resonated a bond with me to this day. Kurt Vonnegut was a unique voice and I miss him terribly ( as my father also). I believe only America could have produced this voice ( Twain, Poe, Melville, etc) as those of other countries: Dostoevsky in Russia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Columbia, you get the picture. With Peace As the old beats would recount: Kurt was One Cool Cat, you dig?

Timely even today, God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut

The film is a masterpiece. I saw it 10 years after I read the book. This is one of Nick Nolte's best characters!

"I love you sons of bitches." Love you too Kurt. Rest well.

Billy Pilgrim came unstuck in time

The movie is phenomenal, makes me want to read the book.

Happy 100th birthday Kurt Vonnegut!

We miss your human form...Kurt you are alive in Nashville 2019..."So it goes"

It is insane how self-honest and transparent he is about his own work. He says, heres the didactic lesson... ...wow

Charlie Rose just never really takes the time to actually listen to his guests, does he? god damn

The only summer reading list I didn't mind reading

I think Slapstick is one of his best

Listen. Genius. Absolute genius. Poo-tee-weet.

the movie clips are so fast. I guess I blinked.

Interestingly, Henry James wrote his three greatest novels (The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, & The Golden Bowl) in quick succession around the time he was sixty.

a great book by my favorite author...

The character Howard W. Campbell, Jr. is in both _Mother Night_ and _Slaughterhouse-Five._

he remains as a legend

who cares if it was a bestseller. or what sells the most.

The Karass always delivers just what you asked for probably not what you expected, "Hey Jerry didja bring me a movie? " "Oops gosh gee I didn't aw heck."

I've read a lot of Vonnegut's work, though not all, and I'd agree with him that his three best are Mother Night, Slaughterhouse Five, and Cat's Cradle.

Mother night is a fantastic book. The movie wasn't bad either

He never mentioned my favorite, "Breakfast of Champions".

The way he handles the ignorant schizophrenia question at the very start shows his class.

what a wonderful man

Breakfast of champions

I adored Player Piano. I really want to know what grade Vonnegut would give it.

I'm Drinking Freedom Fighter Beer!! Love You Kurt!

A really bright man

I really do not think Kurt believes he is getting "dumber" with age. I think the interview took a path after a confusing/foggy statement/answer and he just rolled w/ it.

Loved Cat's Cradle

Man, I wish Vonnegut had lived to see Donald Trump as president. I imagine I know what he would have thought.

Mother Night is not mysterious at all and a page turner, it plays on modern American virtues, and doesn’t waste any breath. If someone I knew would read, I would tell them to read Mother Night. I have never seen the movie, but the Howard in the book does not seem too distraught about his Nazi affiliations, but is simply over the whole business of living.

I just listened to Ethan Hunt read Slaughterhouse Five. I kept thinking of Gaza. A group of innocents paying the price for their wicked leaders. And so it goes.

This was a great film.

yeah, c.o. . I cant leave Vegas til I get that library science degree. gotm it.

“He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia, had contributed his share of the green beret”

“Charlie Rose”, PBS, 19 Nov 1996

A+= Sirens of Titan, Breakfast of Champions and Slapstick. A= Timequake, cats cradle and slaughter house5.

Legend

love you more and more and more, and more, and more and more and more.. see you soon. all my love

Awesome human 😊❤️☀️

Breaks my heart to hear he didn't rate slapstick higher. That book changed my life and I'll be eternally grateful

Μια σπανια συνεντευξη του συγγραφεα Κουρτ Βουνεγκαντ,σχετικα με το βιβλιο"Μητερα Νυχτα"το οποιο εγινε κινηματογραφικη ταινια με τον Νικ Νολτε,και που σε αυτη,υπογραφει μια απο τις καλυτερες του ερμηνειες,εστω και αν η ταινια οπως και το βιβλιο ειναι καπως..."αμφιλεγομενα"σχετικα με το θεμα που παρουσιαζουν:Τον ΑντιΕβραισμο.1:23:Μονο...3.000 δολλαρια(;)πηρε ο συγγραφεας για να το γραψει,και μαλιστα το εμπνευστηκε σε..."κοκτειλ παρτυ"(;)στο 1:30.2:36:Δεν το ηξερα οτι η "General Electric"ειχε οικονομικα συμφεροντα στην Ναζισιτκη Γερμανια.Φανταζομαι ομως,οτι και αλλες Αμερικανικες εταιριες,θα ειχαν συνεργασια με το...3ο Ραιχ,ετσι δεν ειναι κυριε Βοννεγκαντ;13:17:Μου αρεσει που ο Κουρτ Βοννεγκαντ,εμπνεεται και απο την...Λυσιστρατη του Αριστοφανη!Γενικα ενδιαφερουσα συνεντευξη...

I can't stand Charlie Rose. He always interrupts his guests.

I loved "Slapstick" !!!

Wrong, Hocus Pocus and Bluebeard are actually close to the top of my faves

"I figured out how to keep humanity from hurling itself off the cliff. To start, we're all going to post our favorite Rant(s) on 11-11 at 11:11. ~ xoxo Hahn Furst” #FLICKiT #HappyBirthdayKurt #HappyBirthdayFyodor #HappyBirthdayLeo

das ding von hoboken ging gegen alle

Anyone see this and think about what's going on today?

it's much better than I did in college.... HAHAHAH

i picture Mr Vonnegut on a walk, stopping, looking up and saying to himself - I am going to tell the truth to whom ever will listen. How preposterous.

I know he's a famous guy and I should know his name, but I don't. Who is the interviewer?

Lord Haw Haw ( William Joyce) was Irish.

These are bizarrely padded suit jackets ...

This guys name is Kurt.

Ting-a-ling, you son of a bitch!

Charlie Rose not a match. Not here, not in most of his suave interviews that are carried by his brilliant guests. Charlie uses his arrogant face and gestures to want to compensate, but he only turns bullyish and dismissive. Bah. -- BUT KURT! Thanks for being you, thanks for everything.

Hocus Pocus is often not appreciated for its unstated message. He gives a wide range of illustrations how we all trick ourselves into believing whatever we feel we want to believe. So from war ,to adultery, to wealthy entitlement, to contracting out our country, to whorehouses, to insanity, to bells, we are given examples to consider about the "Hey Presto" ploys we innately rely upon. For instance, Kurt's narrator described a rich guy on the college board who spoke Chinese if he wanted to impress people, as if ten million idiots in China couldn't do so. Another person would quote Shakespeare out of context. And the motto that fits today's world all too well, "The complicated futility of ignorance." And so it goes.

¿¿ I'm all in .

now that we know about charlie rose, kinda weird. rose is a child compared to vonnegut. tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly, man got to sit and wonder why, why, why?

"Alright...lets have an American" ...genius

We need to make a Unicorn trap!!??....

Timequake was better than a B-

This nigga is an ARTIST

his last interview ( ?)

Kilgore Trout 🐟 Goodbye Blue Mondays

very interesting, vonnegut was one of my favorate writers when I was in my teens I think it is very telling that he didn't mention female writers when he talked about hitting your prime at 55. A bit of a masoginist old f$%^ ain't he. or maybe I may be misreading it but he did come off like he only male mater... like female writers are not worth mentioning. I think i will write him into my next short story ...that should be fun

That's definetely the worst interview Charlie Rose ever made. Such terrible questions. He'd should've read at least a bit about Vonnegut. WTF

Yeah, he finally got the recognition he deserved but for more than half his life he struggled to be heard. How many brilliant minds got rejected by the putrid trash that makes up the publishing industry?

7:55 Writers don't enjoy writing. I write short stories. I don't enjoy writing.

I don't like this interviewer

Vonnegut has been a big inspiration on my writing as an author. Please consider reading my novel. "Dashboard Daydream" By Thomas C. Stuhr A m a z o n. 💀

Gerald Celente should have gotten the lead for Mother Night over NIck Nolte.

His books were not promoted or displayed much in my high school in the 80s??..maybe would off givin us the wrong idea about things???... Us X-gen saw a lot of things trying to be X-out right in front of our FACES???... Truth cover-ups??... The kids need hear and understand what he's talking about... Laughing to understand life can bring tears to your eyes... It'll help U fix what needs to be fixed sometimes??... Bearable... Bare .. Yourself... Bare.. IT.. And become a bear... From poo to yogi to gentel Ben to the care bear ... Bear with me... We're just Barely legal?...

Huh..He’s a much better writer than talker.

This just reminds me Charlie Rose never knew how to shut the fuck up and listen.

He thinks Tennessee Williams is greater than Eugene O'Neil. I disagree

WTH this gut looks like my English Professor lol

+kilgore trout trauert

Charlie Rose has a very flippant almost aggressive style, almost seems disrespectful because his tone is so different than the authors. its very annoying but Vonnegut tolerates it. I guess because its promoting a movie and his book that the author is giving the interview and Charlie Rose is so abrupt and cursory in this interview. When is an interviewer not being alive when he is banned from his own tv show. Its a sad ending but maybe he was doing bad stuff when he wasnt interviewing. His persona here in the interview doesnt seem very agreeable.

I hate Charlie Rose. He LOVES to interrupts guests.

Charlie Rose's smirk and fake interest is annoying.

This interviewer is godawful.

How is it that I enjoy the Andre show over this