Excellent review. Vonnegut is one of my favourite authors. I read Cat's cradle few years back. It is right up there with slaughterhouse five and Mother night as my favourite Vonnegut novels.
One of the best things about Vonnegut is how people can come away with their own interpretation of the absurdity. There is almost zero overlap between what you highlight, what I would, and the frequent highlights in kindle
@@readtherightthing Good spin. We all benefit from different perspectives, and putting ourselves into a different frame of mind for a few evenings every now and then is a good practice. The punctuation in my first post was a wink to Vonnegut fans. Did you catch it?
I just read Cat's Cradle and I didn't really get it. I could see how he was pointing out the scientists who come up with these deadly inventions like the a-bomb and ice-9 just for the sake of pursuing their interests without any thought as to the wider consequences. I actually, ice-9 was my favorite part of the book how it acted as a seed crystal to allow water to freeze at above room temp.
Read several Vonnegut books when I was younger, and Slaughterhouse Five was a favorite among all authors. & while I' remember Slaughterhouse Five & a few others , some are lost to time & blurry teenage & college years, so not sure if I did Cat's Cradle or not. Currently listening to it, and found your review during a break, looking for reasons to continue the story. I'm not finding CC nearly as biting a SH5, and not on par with SL5 in humor, pathos. Let me give you a good recommendation, William Peter Blatty's Faith Trilogy: The Exorcist , The Ninth Configuration, & Legion(the only true Exorcist sequel, & Blatty directed the film adaptation Exorcist 3: Legion himself). If you've not read these, I think they'll blow you away just by how good Blatty is. They are not schlockly pulp horror books, they're great american literature. Each is a story written about aspects of faith, not "the devil is the boogeyman" as many would assume. And never preachy either, but more humanistic in the arguments the books make. I'm still agnostic, but I don't mind an argument for God if it's weaved into great stories.
Thank you for the comment! I hope you enjoy listening to the end of Cat's Cradle. I'm not sure anything can live up to SH5 though. Thanks for the recommendations. I still haven't seen the Exorcist so maybe I should read the book first.
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Excellent review. Vonnegut is one of my favourite authors. I read Cat's cradle few years back. It is right up there with slaughterhouse five and Mother night as my favourite Vonnegut novels.
He's one of my favorite authors as well. I look forward to reading Mother Night at some point this year.
One of the best things about Vonnegut is how people can come away with their own interpretation of the absurdity. There is almost zero overlap between what you highlight, what I would, and the frequent highlights in kindle
I am trying to avoid becoming cynical in my old age; perhaps I should not have read Cat's Cradle, but it was a very good read all the same.
I read Vonnegut I feel cynical and pessimistic but free and optimistic at the same time.
@@readtherightthing Good spin. We all benefit from different perspectives, and putting ourselves into a different frame of mind for a few evenings every now and then is a good practice.
The punctuation in my first post was a wink to Vonnegut fans. Did you catch it?
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I just read Cat's Cradle and I didn't really get it. I could see how he was pointing out the scientists who come up with these deadly inventions like the a-bomb and ice-9 just for the sake of pursuing their interests without any thought as to the wider consequences. I actually, ice-9 was my favorite part of the book how it acted as a seed crystal to allow water to freeze at above room temp.
Great review of a great book!
Thank you for the kind comment!
Read several Vonnegut books when I was younger, and Slaughterhouse Five was a favorite among all authors. & while I' remember Slaughterhouse Five & a few others , some are lost to time & blurry teenage & college years, so not sure if I did Cat's Cradle or not. Currently listening to it, and found your review during a break, looking for reasons to continue the story. I'm not finding CC nearly as biting a SH5, and not on par with SL5 in humor, pathos.
Let me give you a good recommendation, William Peter Blatty's Faith Trilogy: The Exorcist , The Ninth Configuration, & Legion(the only true Exorcist sequel, & Blatty directed the film adaptation Exorcist 3: Legion himself). If you've not read these, I think they'll blow you away just by how good Blatty is. They are not schlockly pulp horror books, they're great american literature. Each is a story written about aspects of faith, not "the devil is the boogeyman" as many would assume. And never preachy either, but more humanistic in the arguments the books make. I'm still agnostic, but I don't mind an argument for God if it's weaved into great stories.
Thank you for the comment! I hope you enjoy listening to the end of Cat's Cradle. I'm not sure anything can live up to SH5 though. Thanks for the recommendations. I still haven't seen the Exorcist so maybe I should read the book first.
You'd like my anthology which is dedicated to his memory. Its called ,Stalking Kilgore Trout. so it goes
Thanks! I'll check it out.
Good choice of Vonnegut novels!
Read Mother Night and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater if you can.
Thanks! Those two are next on my Vonnegut list. As well as a re-read of Slaughterhouse-Five
Read them all.😜
I just read this. You explaining just makes it that much more hillarous. Lol. I still cant believe i read this lol. 😂.
Thanks for the comment! I think I'll definitely re-read this book at some point.
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The classic flaw. Christianity IS NOT how you live to get to Heaven and happiness. That is the premise of ALL religions, not Christianity. If there is one true religion, it would, by definition,HAVE to be unique from all the others.