I first took up this book in a bookstore a couple of years ago - it might have been newly out - read a story or two and sort-of became my bookstore-reading book, the one I looked at when I went to the store to pass some time and didn't have any other interests. Now I finally read it (I can scratch it out of my to-read list after all that time!)and I wasn't disappointed.When I looked briefly into the comments section, most people seemed to compare "While mortals sleep" with Kurt Vonnegut's other books - I did not do it. I have read some of Vonnegut's novels ("Galápagos", "Armageddon in retrospect", "Breakfast of Champions") and really enjoyed them, but somehow this book didn't connect in my mind with them at all. Maybe I read them too long ago or the style is different, but I think it may be a good thing too. Three years ago I read almost all short story collections I found in my home - about ten, I think - for a school assignment. Many of them I liked well enough but they left no lasting impression. This one I would have loved. No matter what it's like compared with Vonnegut's masterpieces, the stories were funny and witty and had unexpected endings and very much humanity and life in them. I found something delightful in every one of them. That's what matters in the end, I believe.

It was a'ight. Lots of women named Nancy and fairly simple parables. An airplane read.