Let's see... I finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus the other day. A pretty good book, I must say. It's not amazing, but pretty good. He does make a number of excellent points. I definitely have that much to say about it.

I give it about a six and a half out of ten. Pretty good, but not that great.

some quotes just from flipping through randomly:

"Bergeron's epitaph for the planet ... which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP."

"People who can eat people are the luckiest people in the world."

"Life was like an ocean liner to a lot of people... And their TV sets were portholes through which they could look while doing nothing, to see all the World was doing with no help from them. Look at it go!"

"Crucifixion as a mode of execution for the very worst criminals was outlawed by the first Christian Roman Emperor, who was Constantine the Great. Burning and boiling were still OK."

"'What a clever trap your Ruling Class set for us,' he went on. 'First the atomic bomb. Now this.'
'Trap?' I echoed wonderingly.
'They looted your public and corporate treasuries, and turned your industries over to nincompoops,' he said. 'Then they had your Government borrow so heavily from us that we had no choice but to send over an Army of Occupation in business suits. Never before has the Ruling Class of a country found a way to stick other countries with all the responsibilities their wealth might imply, and still remain rich beyond the dreams of avarice! No wonder they thought the comatose Ronald Reagan was a great President!'"