Cat's Cradle

from g0ldenboy

Cat's Cradle is another easy read by Vonnegut that's difficult to review due to its disjointed, all-encompassing nature. It's more focused than Breakfast of Champions only in that its narration inhibits Vonnegut from taking side roads to blatantly profess his opinions. Like most books, I went int...

from g0ldenboy

Cat's Cradle is another easy read by Vonnegut that's difficult to review due to its disjointed, all-encompassing nature. It's more focused than Breakfast of Champions only in that its narration inhibits Vonnegut from taking side roads to blatantly profess his opinions. Like most books, I went int...

from StephenBarkley

Bizarre. Of course, I could have also went with biting, dark, witty, ironic, or any other number of adjectives to describe Vonnegut's fourth novel. All considered, however, bizarre works best. In Cat's Cradle, the lead character Jonah set out to write a book about what important Americans were do...

from Widsith

Think what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. In 1963, when this book first came out, the world was still unclenching after the Cuban Missile Crisis. The nervy terror beneath the posturing of the Cold War is writ large here, and in cartoon colours; indeed the very name of t...

from rmckeown

Back in the tumultuous 60s, I tried Kurt Vonnegut, because everyone had one or another of his books at the ready for spare moments of reading. Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and Jailbird seemed to be popular titles. I read Mother Night, and a little later, Breakfast of Champions, but didn't c...