Cat's Cradle: A Novel

Probably my favorite Vonnegut. His crazy ideas keep coming back to me. I love the idea of making extended families. One mark of a good book is the bits that keep coming back years later.

Read it in high school..read quite a few of Vonnegut's books when I was younger

The only Vonnegut novel I bothered to read, for obvious reasons (HINT: I'm a cat). It was really great I thought. But didn't have as many cats as I thought it would. Still at least he mention them in the title, that's something I guess. I wish he had mentioned us in Slaughterhouse 5, because I really actually want to read that one. However my rampant egomania about being a cat prohibits me from...more

The only Vonnegut novel I bothered to read, for obvious reasons (HINT: I'm a cat). It was really great I thought. But didn't have as many cats as I thought it would. Still at least he mention them in the title, that's something I guess. I wish he had mentioned us in Slaughterhouse 5, because I really actually want to read that one. However my rampant egomania about being a cat prohibits me from reading anything that doesn't promise to mention cats at least once.   hide

Twisted and brilliant, VERY hard to follow if your brain doesn't like twisting itself in knots. (And who doesn't like that, I ask you?) Vintage Vonnegut.