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This book is black humor and it is considered one of the best. There is a disclaimer on the dedication page. It says," Nothing in this book is true.
Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me that it takes more noise, anguish, and lots more action to get a laugh today. The copyright of this book is 1963, post WW2. The Baby Boomers? I found the book clever. I appreciated the plot for Vonnegut's imagination. Also he writes well. I could easily picture all of these nutty people. Thinking about the end of civilization is a big thought. Today we have Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". Vonnegut's book is done with humor and the other with stark horror. However, at the end of Cat'sCradle I felt the same chill.

I am convinced that there is such a thing as generational humor. I see my grandchildren crackup over something I do not understand. Also, my children, the grandchildren's parents, as a group laugh hysterically over things they find funny. Now my generation is not humorless. I think our generation's ( old ) humor seems to be a quiet humor. Not really a scream of laughter -----I don't know. The 3 Stooges were pretty wild and we all screamed with laughter. I wonder if my grandchildren would laugh at the Stooges? There is one way to find out. Hope their works are available. This is the 2nd of Vonnegut's books I have read and I did not like either very much.


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Cat Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 9780241951606 Books Reviews

This was technically my second book by Vonnegut -- my first being 'God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian" -- but I consider this to be my real intro to his work, as Kevorkian was rather short and maybe not the best introduction to Kurt's style. And as far as introductions to prolific authors go, I thought it was excellent. I'm excited to explore Kurt's catalog after this.

Cat's Cradle is a story about the end of the world, but I promise you it is not like any apocalyptic story you have read. This is the kind of book that is stuffed with information to contemplate, while at the same time being totally skimmable. Essentially its the kind of books that goes fast, but has so much more to pick up on subsequent reads (I definitely plan to read it again). Cat's Cradle offers an interesting analysis of religion through Bokononism, in which believers maintain that they are all instruments of God's Will, whether they wish to be or not.

While the plot is entertaining and the ideas worth contemplating it was really Kurt's voice that propelled me through the story. Right from the beginning I latched onto his dry wit and rolled with it through to the end. As it happens, I really enjoyed it. Er, rather, as it was meant to happen.

See the cat? See the cradle?
Kurt Vonnegut is a man who saw which way the world was turning and was none to pleased by it. This is one of many novels covering his themes of how flawed human society is, regardless of what it tries to pursue.

The story follows a reporter named John. John wants to write a book Felix Hoennikker, who was one of the principle engineers of the atomic bomb. While investigating him, he meets many things a new religion called Bokononism, a stone angel, a philosophical dwarf, a Hoosier, and a chemical more dangerous than the A-bomb itself.

Vonnegut spares no one in this volume, taking shots at scientists and the religious with equal fervor. Vonnegut writes some of the best absurd ism in literature, and anyone should be glad to read this. Enjoy.
Okay -- three stars. That's what I think OTHER readers will think of this book. I think it is worth four stars. But this review is supposed to try and be helpful to you, dear reader, so I do not wish to inflate how good YOU might think this book is.

But let's face it It's Vonnegut. Satirical. Whimsical. Deadly earnest in a half-joking kind of way. Not particularly optimistic about the future of us People, and not, apparently, particularly fond of us either. Three stars of Vonnegut is worth maybe four stars of Wolfe, maybe five stars of Koontz. Just three stars of Twain, though.

So about this book it's a quick read. There are like 127 chapters in the story, but they all fit (in my edition) into just 287 pages. 287 very spacious and roomy pages. The chapters tend to be about a page-and-a-half long, some just a couple of paragraphs. Vonnegut bounces right along, telling the story of John, as John seeks to write a biography of one of the father's of the atom bomb. (A fictional father.)

The work no doubt contains some of Vonnegut's more creative ideas ice-9; Bokononism; Mona Aamons Monzano, the most beautiful girl ever; a completely incomprehensible dialect of what might have once been the English language; and, of course, the end of the World. The story starts out innocently enough, but one thing just leads to the next and the next and before you know it, you will find yourself enmeshed in a world of utter ridiculousness, but you had better take it seriously or you may end up on "the hook." Pronounced "hy-u-o-ook-kuh."

So, not too deep, but deep enough. Not too, too funny, but totally, irreverently so. Not too long, but not too short. You will most likely enjoy this book.
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This book is black humor and it is considered one of the best. There is a disclaimer on the dedication page. It says," Nothing in this book is true.
Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me that it takes more noise, anguish, and lots more action to get a laugh today. The copyright of this book is 1963, post WW2. The Baby Boomers? I found the book clever. I appreciated the plot for Vonnegut's imagination. Also he writes well. I could easily picture all of these nutty people. Thinking about the end of civilization is a big thought. Today we have Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". Vonnegut's book is done with humor and the other with stark horror. However, at the end of Cat'sCradle I felt the same chill.

I am convinced that there is such a thing as generational humor. I see my grandchildren crackup over something I do not understand. Also, my children, the grandchildren's parents, as a group laugh hysterically over things they find funny. Now my generation is not humorless. I think our generation's ( old ) humor seems to be a quiet humor. Not really a scream of laughter -----I don't know. The 3 Stooges were pretty wild and we all screamed with laughter. I wonder if my grandchildren would laugh at the Stooges? There is one way to find out. Hope their works are available. This is the 2nd of Vonnegut's books I have read and I did not like either very much.