That is also a good choice… both are equally great mind blowing SF that are very very Russian.
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Thank you @MalevolentPixy and @TobinL!
I’m reading, for the first-and-not-last-time, “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. After that, I’m looking for a Jean Harlow biography that isn’t filled with fiction and studio myth (I think I know what it is, but I have to see the cover and year of publication to be sure). Also - Wallace Beery - anyone know of a biography of him that doesn’t implicate him in the death of Ted Healy, the man who, among other things, put together The Three Stooges?
I am fascinated by Hollywood’s Golden Age, I admit it.
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For the benefit of anybody reading my post who has yet to read the book and so needs to be warned that I discuss a plot device in such a way that they might guess what is going to happen.
The book is Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
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Oh, I’ve read it. My dad got a boxed set - either he got it for himself with a B. Dalton’s gift certificate or my brother got it for him - of some of KV’s paperbacks: _Cat’s Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, Player Piano, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Welcome to the Monkey House, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater…oh, and the one with “Granfalloons” in the title, I can’t remember it. I was 12, and read all of them. I’m not going to lie and say I GOT all of them…but I got enough to re-read at least three of them as I got older. Time to read them all again, I say; they’re practically “virgin” to me all over again.
James Earl Jones as Kilgore Trout on Broadway. Think about that.
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