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So it goes.

Just finished reading Vonnegut’s famous Slaughterhouse Five. New York Times, in their original review of the book, said something to the effect that you’d either love it or push it aside as a science fiction book. I suppose great works have that capability of sharply dividing public opinion but I just found the book… listless [...]

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Forster, Vonnegut, India et. al.

I guess it was the apt time to read Forster’s ‘A passage to India’. Any book that Kowsik recommends demands to be taken with a pinch of salt by me. Not to cast any aspersions on the merits of his choice for his is an extremely keen intellect and possesses a very envious literary repertoire, [...]

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