Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut

[thewolffromhell66666]

that was so beautiful

[besttheeverhappy]

NO EDGE

[tapstar84]

@besttheeverhappy i was just gonna comment that! hahah

[WTBman2011]

That was kinda sad.

[dykestorm]

WHY WONT HE BLINK?

[elliekart]

@dykestorm There are actually lots of weeping angels surrounding him.

[IWontStopHoldingOn95]

@elliekart THIS.

[JenasaurousRex16]

His eyes look so beautiful here :D

[mrshairspray321]

@JenasaurousRex16 They always look so beautiful ;__; <3

[abifailXabishka]

amount of times John blinks in this video: 0

[TheSecretKeepersBand]

I started reading slaughterhouse-five today.

This made me sad.

[jollyrainbowsheep]

I was about to comment on this saying 'blatantly reading at the beginning of this video' ...then realised thats what the whole video is! Duh?!

[Soccerrocks32]

2 years ago someone commented "john should read his own audiobooks"

now he does.

[219kenzie]

Whenever I read books now, I hear them in John's voice. Anyone else do the same?

[sethwerewolf]

his eye is normal now! yay!

[CycocelVocalist]

John and I are molemates!

[moosikins1234]

Can John and Hank CALL each other?

[TheEmpress101]

@moosikins1234 Yeah, they can :)

[Tawnyfur]

Your voice is too soothing for me to actually focus on your words. xD Sorry.

[Kikomechan]

Don't mean to be a troll, but you pronounced Potowatomi wrong. I'm sorry, but it's my tribe.

[pineapplez342]

It made me sad to learn that I didn't become a Vonnegut fan until after his death. :(

[ninjasuperscott]

Dude you blinked a total of two times in this video

[kiwi1mango1]

Now I know what someone's eyes look like when they are reading. I always wondered that.....

[MotionCitySoundtrac2]

i just realized, how cute your eyes are xD Nice reading voice :)

[mamemimoma]

it's kind of sad that so many people fail to do exactly what he is doing in the video.

READ.

the flippin

description box.

jesus!

[NothingUnspecial]

Fates Worse Than Death... in my Pants

[Pyroblazer]

@NothingUnspecial your farts are that bad?XD

[OverdoseStudios]

I'm glad I discovered Kurt Vonnegut. Shame he died. So it goes...

[robinjoanna]

You're an amazing reader. And, on a different note, I love that you can appreciate the adorableness of Scott Westerfeld. Thank you for being a lovely delight. :)

[tpleg]

Kind of unfortunate that all of the comments seem to be regarding whether or not John is reading, considering what this is supposed to be about...

RIP Kurt Vonnegut, dead five years ago today. So it goes.

[hihikmn]

You have a writer's reading voice, its fantastic :)

Vonnegut is one of my favorite writers

[lauradee2010]

You can tell he is reading, his eyes are not focused on the camera and you can see his vision panning as he reads

[TheHatOfDestiny]

@lauradee2010 He's supposed to be reading, how exactly would he be able to remmember all that in such a short time?

It does says READS in the description.

[lauradee2010]

@TheHatOfDestiny It was just some people were debating whether he was reading or not.

[TheHatOfDestiny]

@lauradee2010  oh right. sorry I got all capital letters on you there.

[lemondrop5578]

@rachelallencamus He's reading from the book behind the camera. His memory isn't THAT amazing. xD

[Kikomechan]

I'm in that tribe and you're sayin' it wrong. Sorry, John, love you but that made me a bit worried for my tribe's future.

[MewDawn]

You reading Kurt Vonnegut has just made my life.

And I literally just cried.

Why did I just cry? Your voice was so soothing. And the fact that Kurt Vonnegut is gone.

I shall miss Kurt Vonnegut always.

[lolgirl607]

audio book please?

[purpletigerlover]

the 69th video in one weekend ahahahahahahah this of course is mon,jan,10,10 when this comment was made

[Corey5268]

I didn't know that Kurt Vonnegut was dead until I watched this video. Though he died almost four years ago, I'm now mourning.

[mariskamagdolinah]

your eye looks good.

[webbjsabrina]

I think you should definitely make some audio books, your voice is excellent for reading out loud.

[RuleNr34]

Äbte mähen heu? Ja, Äbte mähen Heu!

[LelouchLAMPER0UGE]

Listening to you read outloud..... really, makes me wish you would read one of your books in full. You voice is just calming and makes me really listen (unlike normal voices on audio books).

[greengirllover]

You really do have an awesome reading voice <3

[bordercomedens2]

I knew he was reading because of two reasons. 1.A writer cannot speak in his(or her) own words, they write their own story. 2. He was moving his eyes when he speak.

[nathan13x]

It's funny watching yur eyes read xD it's kinda trippy, like yur reading my face D:

[polaropposites96]

Thank you for pronouncing Louisville correctly. You truly are a scholar and a gentleman.

[jaimelirefrancais]

Maxincuckee! That's in Culver, Indiana where I live!

[artvandelay13]

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

RIP, Kurt.

[wittywhitmarla]

Geez!! I am watching all of the VB vlogs and this is or course where I am so far and I just want to say you John are an amazing reader. I know your a writer and you should be a good reader but I try to write but I suck at reading out loud, I stutter and stumble. You are flawless. :]

[masterohumans]

Vonnegut is like my most favorite author ever! I started reading his books after he died and while i still have plenty of things left to read by him i miss him all the same and its depressing to think about how there is only a finite amount of novels and short stories left by him to enjoy. Stupid death, causing people to die.

[mushugai]

eptimayanhoi?

[flystar26]

Kurt Vonnegut is brilliant. I can't get enough of him.

[mehmeh202]

I recently began work on my undergraduate thesis, focusing on Vonnegut's book Mother Night, and the topic of suicide. Even though I never met him, I miss him all the time. What a wise voice... I wish he were more widely read today!

[mehmeh202]

I am a new nerdfighter, so I'm watching all of these videos now for the first time. I remember this day quite clearly. I was a senior in high school. My dad and I both considered Vonnegut our favorite author. The day he died, my mom found out first. She yelled it up the stairs to where we were getting ready. My dad and I walked out into the hall, looked at each other sadly, and without saying a word went back to our morning routines. I wore all black that day.

[N3bul0us]

I would rate 5*s but there are currently 400 votes exactly, and I like how even it is.

Amazing reading.

[LoveShiaGDSN]

R.I.P. Kurt Vonnegut.

Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, and Cat's Cradle are some of my favorite books.

[anAbundanceOfAmys]

I adore Kurt Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle will always be one of my favorites. <3

[bookwormdaisy]

You're a really good reader! :D

[DesireBros22]

that was an interesting video but boring

[GIANTclaaam]

That's very contradictory, and very ignorant.

[MeisterNiceguy]

I enjoy watching your videos :)

[sometimesascientist]

Thank you.

[doodlehh]

it is supremely weird to watch someone video-read to you.

[thevloggirls]

i know high five! uh ha nerdfighters!!!

[tvsuicide4]

When I was in middle school, I read one of Vonnegut's short stories, and for so long, the story kept festering at the back of the my mind. It was dark, and yet so realistic and scarry. It came back to mind when I started reading 1984, and then I was determined to find out who the writer was. I told my friend a little about the details of the story and he said, "Oh, the writer of Slaughterhouse 5, he wrote that short story, yeah, it impacted me too!" I wish I knew the name of that short story now

[senorsqueakydesk]

I had never heard of Kurt Vonnegut until I started watching B2.0. Thanks for introducing me to an awesome author!!

[PickleMcPicklehiemer]

I'm studying Slaughterhouse 5 in literature at the moment, and when I found out that Vonnegut died in '07, I felt the need to see if you'd made a video, John. And you had :)

Lovely reading

[valerie2776]

John should read his own audiobooks.

[iambored71717]

It is just me or do other people hum along with the old tune every time it comes on?

[DjKiba]

OMG I feel so sad and empty now

[jordyxx08]

I believe that Hank and John are the best /men/ to ever live.

But that's just my opinion. xD

But, of course, George Washington was pretty important to...

[Luke01skywalker2003]

Kurt Vonnegut was, to me, the greatest man that ever lived.

[zwiggles123]

his eye is back to normal!!

[HatofDoom]

I'd read more Vonnegut if I could get John to do it on tape for me.

[Angieanything]

Awesome...

[Amiryfey]

I love John reading

[ribbonsandsoldiers]

so this is where you got that collaboration thing you so love from.

[DittoFreak]

Comment 70:

Huh?

[kira902k]

oh my.

[AnnaAKarenina]

So it goes.

[JerryJealousy]

that book sounds amazing

[BarryAldridge]

Ah great reading John. I need to read easy before I get to that eulogy lol.

[Irridescent]

Aw now I want to read that book.

[blackstarzombies]

I cried when Kurt died =[

[carmenriots]

i live in northern indiana...woo?

lol

[Fixrulz]

wow, I'm german and I really didn't understand the german phrase in there... although John pronounced it correctly. beautiful piece. the end reminded me of the conclusion of "the search of the lost time" or however u call it in english

[mithwenarataur]

@Fixrulz Well maybe it's because the phrase is better know as "Mähtderabtheu-naderabtmähtkei­nheu-diemagdmähtheu". At least that's the way I learned it... (For the non-german speakers here: instead of "Do abbots mow hay" I know the phrase as - and it doesn't work as well in English - "Does the abbot mow hay, no the abbot does not mow hay, the maidservant mows hay") If you say it really fast in dialect it sounds a bit like you are speaking Hindi. My mom and I did it all the time when I was little.

[Sleepover137]

@Fixrulz Ich versteh's deutsche auch nicht...any Idea what it might be? Because I really wonder...

[asiancore001]

hes hot...sry, i have a hing for ners:)

[thekay72]

you can see his eyes moving while he reads ;p.

it was a really nice piece.

[sgtpeppers10]

r.i.p. kurt.

[OUdarling]

I have to correct your pronunciation. It's "POT-a-WAH-tah-mee", not "POT-a-wah-TOE-mee". Sorry.

[dorothyann07]

At the 1:35 & 2:08 marks, he pronouces the word the way you say is the "correct" pronunciation.

[yesterdayismyday]

your a really good reader. and that piece was really nice. gosh i wish i could write like that.

[duckling97]

wow, this was exactly 1 year ago, and its amazing

[duckling97]

nvm, its a year and 1 month, im a li'el slow today

[xxbeatlesxxgirl]

vonnegut was amazing

i miss him

[whitestripedgirl]

you should read the audiobook for paper towns, although the guy who did lfa and aok was good too, but still it would be really cool if you read it.

A little off topic but you know whats cool? Neil Gaiman reads his audiobooks instead of someone else! lol ok this was a very point less comment but oh well!

[redatpct]

i remember this... my ap english teacher changed the curriculum to slaughter house five after she found out.

[sportynspunky78]

Wow you have a very good reading voice. It's really calming but intriguing at the same time. DFTBA!

[frogdude5]

woop! your eye's better!

[Mudgerella]

Bravo John... Bravo

[Pumpkie234]

who's vonnegut?

[apres]

Wow.

[EdWont]

He was an author. He is a legend.

That sounds pretentious, but really...he was brilliant. Check out Slaughterhouse 5 or anything by him. Pretty wonderful stuff.

[rachelallencamus]

the video description says he READS from fates worse than death.

[SgtNeely]

@rachelallencamus If you watch his eyes they move back and forth so I am pretty sure he is just reading something behind the camera

[strickerman101]

@rachelallencamus The "fates" part is in a title to its sort of exempt from grammar, because actually the entire phrase is a singular noun, if the title was "Fates worse than deaths" Assuming that is not the actual title but the title plural than he would be wrong. Go grammar nazis!!!!

[bluemoo182]

shutup.

[clumsy0ninja]

What's the big deal about it? I'd like to see YOU memorize it.

[regularguy5mb]

We will miss Kurt. Thank you for this John.

[guacamoleroxmysox]

I can definatly see that John gets a lot of inspiration from him...

[horsewhisperer990]

that book sounds really good. the guy on the cover looks exactly like my old music teacher.

[wrighterdawn]

I remember my eyes getting a little wet that day...oh, Mr. Vonnegut, you will be missed...

[Berthaballs16]

eyes

[Cassie9918]

Go BROTHERHOOD 2.0!

[JillixxAnn]

umm... what was that about again?

[specialneon]

I am very impressed by how clearly you read without tripping over any words.

But that impressed feeling totally disappeared when you said "Louisville" the Louisville way.

[thesisrevoked]

How do YOU pronounce it?

[specialneon]

Lew ee ville.

Not luh ville, or however you would make those sounds transcribe to text.

[LionHeart28]

I'm not french, so I can't read with a french accent lol, i call it Loo-iss-vill

is that not how its supposed to be?

[ggodv]

he keeps flaring his nostrils..

[ValorOrgulloso]

haha, that's what i was thinking when i was watching this :)

[Kupo923]

Vonnegut will always be the best. <3 R.I.P.

[depaul05]

This is best post I have yet seen. That's a writer.

[PlanetHell999]

bo-ring

[lili4trees]

Very nice. :)

[wireteth]

Rest In Peace, Kurt...

[UsagiOhkami]

eyes look like sprinklers when they're reading.

chuh chuh chuh chuh chhhhhhshshshshshs

[crazycolorfulchica]

A lot of people made vlogs about him. I guess I should read some of his books now. Sounds good.

[namlhots]

Now, there's a role model.