the thing this book felt the most like to me was Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. It’s like the narrative is there, but it’s not (that) important. This is a story about having readers enter a dreamscape and be surrounded by the poetry of it all. Literalists will hate this.
I wanna be mad at you but honestly I read cat’s cradle like 20 years ago and I don’t remember anything
The first version I read was like the schoolastic book fair version and when I learned what abridged mean it was pretty obviously like half the book maybe for kids? 900 sounds a lot closer to the full story though. There’s a ton of printings so I don’t know specifically but I’d guess it’s maybe less heavily abridged? If you do want the full version experience I think the newer translation that penguin classics uses is a definitive edition
How many pages of social media doomscrolling counts as a book? Or how many articles? Engaging with the internet is a fairly high amount of reading outside of a book. I guess my answer is “it’s unknowable” which feels disappointing but I bet there’s a lot of reading that people do in ways that we can’t even really track