Cat's Cradle Book Review

Mar 04 2012 Julia Saboya rated it it was amazing.

Cat's cradle book review. Cats Cradle is an irreverent and often highly entertaining fantasy concerning the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists. Cats Cradle Review As usual Vonnegut brings his unique sense of humor and absurdity to the proceedings making for a deliciously whacked out. In the end Cats Cradle is a highly imaginative work of satire.

First published in 1963 during the Cold War and six years before the Moon Landing Cats Cradle takes a look at the destructive creations made by science the ownership of these products of destruction and the power relationship in government. Rosewater and Breakfast of Champions Oct 102015 In the wake of among other things several mass shootings that have paralyzed the nation one could reasonably argue that there is little to laugh about in the current political and social climate. In the book Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut uses discreet humor irony and his own made up religion Bokononism to illustrate how science is.

Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Let me start off by saying that Cats Cradle was a good book but super weird. While the plot is entertaining and the ideas worth contemplating it was really Kurts voice that propelled me through the story.

The writer of Cats Cradle divided the book into 127 chapters it of each chapter is significant to each from the paragraphs which come within the chapter. Like the game of cats cradle itself where Newt points out there is no cat and there is no cradle life religion and everything else are false and meaningless. However as the narrators mind changes about whether hes going to actually write this book or not the story itself changes.

His world view has always seemed to me to be without illusion though sometimes lacking in joy or hope. It is somewhat amusing in a wry way and quite enjoyable. I am used to weird books as a whole.

Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Cats Cradle offers an interesting analysis of religion through Bokononism in which believers maintain that they are all instruments of Gods Will whether they wish to be or not. Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut re-read.