I'm not sure I "got" this book. There were parts I really enjoyed, and parts that just left me puzzled and annoyed. Maybe I need to re-read it? I'm certainly going to read more Vonnegut, so in that sense it was a successful experience.
Ursula K. Le Guin and her writing have had a formative influence on me ever since I first cracked open A Wizard of Earthsea when I was ten or so. She has expanded my mind and expanded my horizons. These are some of her very finest speculative-fiction short stories from 1962 to 1974—I can't believe...