Status Updates From Babel-17

Is whimsical even the correct word to describe this book? I need to talk about this book with someone so bad :(

He thought I didn't understand. He thought nothing had been communicated. And I was angry. I was hurt. All the misunderstandings that tie the world up and keep people apart were quivering before me at once, waiting for me to untangle them, explain them, and I couldn't. I didn't know the words, the grammar, the syntax. And—’

I keep having to stop reading my old copy of this book to glue it back together. Hopefully this last repair will do it and I can really get into it because Im loving it so far.