First of all, this is not an attack on Australians but towards David Nason because he is an idiot.


Ok, so the NYC correspondent for The Australian is set up to have an interview with, as i see it, the greatest American writer alive today...and he hasn’t read any of his work!

“Three days before we're due to meet at a French restaurant, I haven't read a single word. So I mumble something apologetic and promise to devote the coming weekend to this task, before blurting out: "I should be right, mate, it's only a short book." This is a very dumb and potentially interview-crushing thing to say to an author, but thankfully Vonnegut doesn't seem to mind.”

He later gets into a debate with KV on suicide bombers where Vonnegut argues that we are not so different from them...and frankly I am surprised...usually Australians are more thoughtful, but hey, he’s the NYC correspondent...so he’s weird. Vonnegut is a humanist and a moralist. His word choice would be better understood if you had read some of his work.

He writes “At this point, I give up. I can't be bothered asking him about any of the things I'd thought about: his mother's suicide, how he raised his sister's kids, the great writers he knew and partied with, how he looks back on Dresden.”

Ok, so you were going into the interview with a great writer who is known for liking his privacy and normal living...and you have only read a short bio on him...and decide you would ask about these tender and cool subjects and write a touching article. Do you think he would go 50 years without having other idiots trying to write the same article? Whatever. I just needed to vent some feelings on this journalist who decides to bastardize a wonderful author when he is trying to help people see the world for what it is. So in the end it’s an article about how the book is discredited because it isn’t happy and the author sees good in even those people who happen to be enemies.

Full Article: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au
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