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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 10, 2007 19:06:45 GMT -5
Michael Crichton on Kurt Vonnegut: “He writes about the most excruciatingly painful things. His novels have attacked our deepest fears of automation and the bomb, our deepest political guilts, our fiercest hatreds and loves. Nobody else writes books on these subjects; they are inaccessible to normal novelistic approaches.” This was in the April 15, 2007 edition of The Observer (England). Vonnegut had just died and they ran an article of quotes about him from other writers. (I found this in a university library database so I don't have a link for it. ) |
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Post by Lukaran on Dec 11, 2007 10:57:21 GMT -5
Didn't Michael Crichton write a review of one of Kurt Vonnegut's books once? I think it was in the new republic but I'm not sure. Kahlessa, do you know? You must, if anyone does!  |
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 12, 2007 8:48:58 GMT -5
Didn't Michael Crichton write a review of one of Kurt Vonnegut's books once? I think it was in the new republic but I'm not sure. Kahlessa, do you know? You must, if anyone does! I believe he did but I'll need some time to track it down. |
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 16, 2008 21:12:16 GMT -5
Michael Crichton wrote a review of Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse-Five for The New Republic in 1969: "Sci-Fi and Vonnegut (A Review of Slaughterhouse-Five)" by J. Michael Crichton Here's another excert from the review:
"A Vonnegut book is not cute or precious. It is literally awful, for Vonnegut is one of the few writers able to lift the lid of the garbage can, and dispassionately examine the contents. . . . The ultimate difficulty with Vonnegut is precisely this: that he refuses to say who is wrong. . . . He ascribes no blame, sets no penalties. His commentary on the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King is the same as his comment on all other deaths: “So it goes,” he says and nothing more."
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