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Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.

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it's a decent audiobook, narrator is decent but.
I compare the story with catch 22 hence a bit disappointed, the style is poorer but the book compensate with the absurdity of the story.

I expected more

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To maintain my capacity to reread and perpetually reexamine life in the Socratic way my own existence along with lifelong literary learning at my age, is a most comforting experience. I myself having lived through the immense changes of the 20th century and now two decades into this new millennium, of which I, this sentient being, have witnessed, observed and thankfully not lost, the immense memory or interest that mankind and womankind are sadly and collectively losing the hold of through the inception of this so-called "progress of intelligence" by way of technology and science, which is, in my own humble opinion the recapitulation of failure, the ability to think and not be fooled into the collective innocently ignorant popular consensus?.
When will humanity stop and think collectively? Is it a perpetually incomplete trait that sentient beings may never address? Will there be no understanding of our own perpetual innocent ignorance that which only a few thinkers are capable of achieving?
Sadly I say that one sumises humanity is 'losing' the ability to inculcate safely and humanely and without prejudice a for or against collective understanding that no one knows anything and will never do so.
Most innocence moves through the fog of power, science and religion, the foundations of all ignorance, baseless and perpetually built and destroyed and rebuilt and yet still one witnesses that it remains in all innocence, perpetual.
To be continued...... Tom O'Rourke..1953 ?.... love always

Inspirational

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been on my list for a while glad I listened. if you have been looking for something that you can't stop listening to its this

really good book

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I don't have much exposure to American literature but this was the start of a love affair with the short novel. Vonnegut has a great way of getting to the point, making subtle points about human nature and he seems to be obsessed by fate. It seriously expanded my choice of books.

If you like your stories rooted in reality, then this one might not be for you but otherwise there's humanity in this story and a plot that holds you attention. A great book.

Excellent introduction to the short american novel

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this is wonderful - the writing is so far beyond standard sci fi fare it's embarrassing. the story is deceptively simple, and as ever the ideas and conceits are exactly where they need to be - driving there sorry, not dominating it.

Vonnegut is in a class by himself

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