actually, I've never read SH5

or any other Vonnegut. I should. But the eulogies inspire me. Perhaps I'll go look into Slaughterhouse 5 sometime when my queue goes down.

All I really know about him is the clever Niven quote, really.

"Why did I get into writing SF? Not for the money, certainly. In 1965, no one had ever become a millionare writing science fiction, excepting Heinlein and excluding Vonnegut."