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That which does not kill us, will try, try again.
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Jim, MeatPounder, Cleo -- may you never thirst.
Cleo - all day at the computer has done the same to me, I used to devour about a book a day but now when I'm done reading and writing at the screens all day, I don't feel like doing the work of reading. I want entertainment that doesn't require me to do the imagining. UW - I read a lot of science-fiction when I was very young, kind of cowboys and indians in space kinds of things. But I eventually found the dividing like and stepped over into 'spec-fic' or speculative fiction. There's a big yawning divide between the two for many readers. Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Farenheit 451 are called sci-fi by some, but they're really examples of spec-fic. Many include Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 in the top 50 sci-fi books, but it's more spec-fic too. Anyone else here remember the great old Ace Doubles? Two books in one, two covers, you turned it over to read the other story. -- "If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double", an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.’" – Charles McGrath, New York Times
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Slaugherhouse Five was the first of Vonnegut's books that I've read and it's probably the one I've enjoyed the most so far. Though the protagonist is kidnapped by aliens and is tossed around by the shifting of time, it's still very, I don't know, grounded, I guess. So it goes.
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