Too many modern books are either parts of a series, or 700 pages long, or both. Too many classic novels suffer from the same problem, War and Peace and pretty much anything by Dickens is a long term project. Somewhere along the line a number of writers decided to bang out books that could be read in one or two sittings. Kurt Vonnegut was one of those writers. Slapstick is another good old fashioned End of The World book-Kurt Vonnegut loves that whole post-Apocalyptic thing. People die by the millions, nations crumble into ruins, and the Chinese learn to control…