1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (interestingly suggested by two of my friends, after much consideration on one of my friend's part)
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. This last friend gave me a laundry list of books, recommended partly from his own backlogged library of things to read; someone's super well-versed in literature...(*hint hint*) --
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Freakonomics by Levitt
- Catch 22 by Heller
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein
- Ursula Le Guin's work
Anyhoo, I'm still reading Cat's Cradle before starting another novel. This is an interesting one so far. Bokonism seems like a philosophy built not around proverbial beliefs, but dating back to ancestral times. Little quips here and there on things like belonging to a karass and finding others who are part of your karass, tending to others' souls through the forbidden touching of one's soles with another in an act of boko-maru, and unquestioned travels as a journey towards one's destiny...it's bizarre stuff. One recurring theme that lingers in the story that was reflected in Slaughterhouse Five, I appreciate -- the belief that Death is finite and time is limitless, that even as one's body surrenders to the physical forces that deems them no longer viably existent, their journey continues on via another dimension that can't be gleaned in this one. And I enjoy the satirical and deadpan humor Vonnegut consistently delivers. It vibes well with my own :)
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