Cat's Cradle

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novacop923, April 13, 2012 (view all comments by novacop923)
He shoulda stayed in college!

There's no such thing as "ice nine," nor could there ever be; "Bokononism" isn't so much a half-baked Buddhism or Taoism as it is a smug excuse for pseudo-enlightened Westerners to laugh at others behind their back; Mona's probably the most "pedestalized" and least realistic woman character I've come across in literature of this pedigree; etc.

Take all the pretensions out (those listed above, and the wall-to-wall others) and the propulsive force of the novel ceases to exist. I read this in college and was underwhelmed, to say the least (at the Univ. of Chicago, I might add -- and, while the Common Core science requirements sure were hard, *I* didn't drop out and invent my OWN!). Only later did it dawn on me that the shared "smugness" was part of -- nay, the very CRUX -- of its "appeal."

Save your time & money. Read Pynchon's "V." -- published the same year -- instead, and you'll have so many "guns" in your psyche fired you'll be set for life!

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scittlezs, January 22, 2012 (view all comments by scittlezs)
I know that this book is not new to the world, but despite being a Vonnegut fan, this is one I didn't read until this year, and it is one of his best. Unfortunately, I spent most of the year reading books that turned out to be less than what I expected. So it was really refreshing to read Cat's Cradle and have it be not only a Vonnegut book that delivers, as promised, Vonnegut's witty, satirical take on life, but also a book that stands at the front of pack in terms of his best work.

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scittlezs, January 22, 2012 (view all comments by scittlezs)
I know that this book is not new to the world, but despite being a Vonnegut fan, this is one I didn't read until this year, and it is one of his best. Unfortunately, I spent most of the year reading books that turned out to be less than what I expected. So it was really refreshing to read Cat's Cradle and have it be not only a Vonnegut book that delivers, as promised, Vonnegut's witty, satirical take on life, but also a book that stands at the front of pack in terms of his best work.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780385333481

Author:

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher:

Dial Press

Location:

New York, N.Y. :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Humorous Stories

Subject:

American fiction (fictional works by one author)

Subject:

Science Fiction - General

Subject:

Science fiction

Subject:

End of the world

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Satire

Subject:

Humorous fiction

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1998

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Publication Date:

19980931

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

304

Dimensions:

8 x 5.27 x .64 in .5 lb