Dear Sybil,

[mr_j]

Merry Christmas! I saw this and knowing how you admire the man, thought you'd appreciate it.

[Irock]

I just read Slaughterhouse 5. Good.

[Sybil]

Thanks Mr. J, and Merry Christmas to you!

I recently re-read Cat's Cradle. I really must re-read a lot of Vonnegut's stuff - makes me feel young again. I believe young Mr. Nerf is a fan as well.

Sy "must be regressing - I just finished Franny & Zooey again after 30 years, now I must re-read all of Salinger" bil

[squeezle]

Mr. V is one of my favorites - the summer after my freshman year of college I read almost everything he had written to date. Needless to say, I had a skewed persepective on the world that summer.

[ifihadahifi]

Can I be in y'alls club?

[sam]

Vonnegut's early greatness can't be debated, but Timequake blew and Hocus Pocus was mediocre at best.

[Sybil]

Vonnegut's early greatness can't be debated, but Timequake blew and Hocus Pocus was mediocre at best.

I certainly can't argue with that. Of course, in the course of a half century or so of writing, there are bound to be a few duds.

Maybe Kurt should have done like Salinger - after publishing his most brilliant works, disappear into the New England forest, never publish again and forever be revered as a genius of American literature.

Sybil

p.s. don't get me wrong, I adore Salinger's work - I just consider him a coward, and by all accounts an S.O. B.