“My mother, I, and both of my brothers, all without prior coordination, gave each other copies of “A Canticle” for Christmas one year.”
Now that is a very cosmic story!
You all must be very linked in with one another.
That makes me think of another book on the list “Cat’s Cradle” which again I don’t remember well, but I do remember the concept of the “duprass” and whatever the other word was. Groups of people who are very connected on a metaphysical plane. Or however Vonnegut put it. I actually think the duprass were couples, such as those who live together their whole lives and then die within a short time of each other, there was another “_prass” for larger groups, iirc.
I read pretty much all of Vonnegut, right up through breakfast of champions. He was a good writer, but as I’ve said about many of these books I’m not sure what I’d really think of him today.
I’ll say one thing I could NEVER get through “Stranger in a Strange Land”. We tried reading this as a class when I was in, I can’t remember, I think it must have been Jr. High. And we were ALL bored to death with it, we actually voted to stop reading it. I tried it once after that, since I still had the book. Couldn’t do it.
That and “Emma” by Jane Austen. They say if you can get to the end of Chapter 3, or something like that, Emma is then a great book.
Couldn’t just ever get there.
A book less than a thousand pages is a novella for teenagers.
Literally, I would take a two-hundred-page book to school every morning, and finish it before school let out.
“Stranger in a Strange Land” may be strange, but is an easy read.