OK, sure, Kurt Vonnegut, RIP, and all that.
But the outpouring of grief is just a tad too much for me. I read some of his stuff back in my 20s, thought it was reasonable, and moved on. Never thought anything he wrote was worth keeping or re-reading. And I wouldn’t waste my time on him today.
As far as I’m concerned, Vonnegut was just another hack writer who happened to get lucky because the world was in the mood for what he was writing.
And I’m not even going to get into his idiotic political views. RIP but GladYou’reGone.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)